Save The Rain Forest Save Brasil
What about this idea for saving the Amazon Rain forest and helping Brasil get on it’s feet as a first world nation?
Admittedly Brasil has serious socio-economic problems which prevent it from protecting the Amazon region. It’s a fairly onerous obligation, having to police the entire area especially when people are economically motivated to destroy the Amazon for farmland and timber.
Why doesn’t the Brasilian government make a deal with the first world. The Amazon region gets named as a world ecological protection zone with all the protections that the first world nations care to name. In turn these nations pay Brasil a management fee to police the area and ensure enforcement. There could be clauses for violations on both sides and maybe a pre-selected U.N. arbiter. The fee could be wildly excessive and go towards infra-structure development which hopefully elevates the standard of living in Brasil in the long term