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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's complicated. Not the need to save the Amazon, but the fact that we need to save it because the developed world is largely developed because they did things like clearing forests and otherwise damaging the ecosystem in the name of economic progress.

I don't have the answers, but I have to imagine it would involve an international effort to compensate Brazil for their lost "productivity", a program to properly share that wealth, additional aid/assistance to prevent further destruction of the Amazon, and legitimate international deterrents that provide exorbitantly heavy punitive actions against the criminal bosses who order these types of acts.

But that's just my back of napkin spitball of how to approach it. I'm the furthest thing away from having any meaningful expertise, knowledge, or insight, into how the Amazon can actually be saved.