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If carbon was priced to reflect its negative externalities the Amazon [Rain Forest] wouldn’t have to generate money because clearing it for agriculture would be
by gdubs 7y ago
If carbon was priced to reflect its negative externalities the Amazon [Rain Forest] wouldn’t have to generate money because clearing it for agriculture would be prohibitively expensive.
- rlpb 7y agoPerhaps the rest of the world should be sending money to the rainforest areas to represent the value to the world climate that they provide.
- gdubs 7y agoAbsolutely; pay a dividend to people that comes out of the revenue of the carbon tax.
- riffraff 7y agoI'd imagine people wouldn't really pay for a permit to cut trees, the forest would just accidentally get burned or something like that. If we'd make it not economically useful to burn it down, because agricultural products were less profitable, that would work, probably.