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The thing is that brazil is mostly cutting forests down for slash and burn farming. If they modernized farming practices, the rate of deforestation would drop s
by Joeri 6y ago
The thing is that brazil is mostly cutting forests down for slash and burn farming. If they modernized farming practices, the rate of deforestation would drop significantly. The solution there as with most of these questions of climate fairness is for first world countries to invest in technological development of poorer regions. If brazil’s farmers could practice farming in the same way as european farmers, they wouldn’t need to cut forests down.
- renewiltord 6y agoI'm all for that: the approach of paying them not to do it, either with tech or money (pure dollars or carbon-taxing imports and your local production or anything like that).
- marcosdumay 6y ago> If they modernized farming practices, the rate of deforestation would drop significantly. Ha, that's funny. Europeans have to subsidize their agriculture to compete with Brazil, but Brazilian practices aren't modern? If Brazilian farmers practiced farming in the same way as Europeans do, the country would ban bankrupt.
- rtkwe 6y agoThey have to subsidize because labor and land are more expensive the Europe than Brazil, it has very little to do with how efficient the farming techniques are.
- marcosdumay 6y ago> They have to subsidize because labor and land are more expensive the Europe than Brazil Yeah, mechanization is lower in Europe... (This is related to the subsides.) Anyway, those waves of temporary immigrants that every year go to Europe from poorer neighboring countries aren't much more expensive than Brazilian labor.