Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

The only fair way to curb the deforestation of the Amazon is to make the economic incentive of not cutting it down greater than the incentive of cutting it down. In other words, Brazil needs to be compensated for not utilizing its natural resources. The majority of Western countries exhausted their natural resources (including forests) for economic gain and have no right to point fingers at Brazil, especially when they buy meat and soya from Brazil. It's important to note that Brazil has more preserved nature and a smaller carbon footprint than most - all? - countries that criticize it. I'm all for preserving the Amazon but the entitlement and double standards that surface in discussions about this subject are ridiculous.

This won't work unless we, as a species, cut out on meat (beaf+pork) consumption and also smaller houses/apartments would help (that would mean less need for furniture, i.e. less need for cutting down trees). No-one is going down in the Amazon to cut down trees just for the heck of it or because they are Bolsonaro's croons, they're doing it because there are very strong economic incentives to do it.

I can only assume this is astro-turfing. The Amazon is near a tipping point of total destruction - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-020-00508-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-020-00508-4</a><p>If your pants are on fire and you piss in them, you don&#x27;t say &quot;look how wet your pants are getting&quot;.

De-Florestation in Brazil was really hard to curb. A lot of it is caused by fake benevolence. A good example NGOs that take money to protect the amazon, the process goes like this : raise money &#x2F; buy land &#x2F; cut 70% of the land &#x2F; replant &#x2F; advertise the replanting &#x2F; repeat ...<p>It is completely legal and the environmentalists are in favour of that. At some point they might own the whole thing. Problem is that this is the cause of the fires, these new replanted forests are nowhere as dense and humid as the new quick raising ones.<p>Current Government did two things, relaxed on releasing the amazon satellite data and curbed down the 70% allowance to 30%. That might make it less profitable for the NGOs and maybe the reason they only recently double down on the rhetoric.