Should the rest of the world pay Brazil to maintain the Amazon Forest?
I think the whole world benefits from it, and I really don’t think it should be dessimated. However, I don’t think that Brazil should be exploiting it for a payoff. This is a tough one! I would say, we should contribute to the global well being, so yes, the world should pay them. It makes sense that if we want them to preserve a resource that we consider more valuable “as is” instead of cut into lumber, cleared for land or whatever, that we would pay them to compensate for revenue lost as a consequnce of not harvesting it. However, we must ask ourselves, is the forest worth more than we would be willing to pay for the goods produced by it. If the answer is yes, then we should pay them. If the answer is no, then we should let them do whatever they want.
