Poverty is killing the Amazon. Treating the soil and farmers better could help save what’s left.
Correction! Wealth inequality is killing the planet. Allowing individuals to be many orders of magnitude richer than others, provides an incentive to kill the planet.
Surely you’re not suggesting we disincentivise killing the planet? Those sound like Socialist ideas!
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Bullshit. That is like saying adding more lanes to a freeway will reduce traffic congestion… it just encourages more deforestation.
If the fertility in a rainforest is in the biomass, learning to live with that biomass in place will be necessary if people are to live there. But there were very few people there before people started their land grab… it may not be possible even when the biomass is restored.
If the rainforest is valued for the ecological impact it has, then it is more likely that people will have to move out. Not attractive to the people who already moved in, but when they are starving then they will eventually migrate away anyway, and keeping them there with false promises to make cleared land usable will only make things worse.
