[josh_fyi]

That's great! Liberia can't afford to protect its forest, and this deal allows that.

[__s]

Agreed. This is the kind of agreements that are needed for Brazilian rain forests

The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-simple-economics-of-sav...

But it's a bit complicated because if you just buy plots then cattle farming will buy different plots. So you need to setup an incentive structure to pay dividends for sitting on undeveloped rain forest

[coffeebeqn]

Easiest would be for Brazil to become more stable and act in its own long term interest