Let's Cut Amazon Deforestation to Zero. Here's How.
Let's Cut Amazon Deforestation to Zero. Here's How.
By
Beto Veríssimo
How a seemingly audacious goal to protect the Amazon makes economic sense.
This article is adapted from the Fall 2015 print edition of Americas Quarterly. To subscribe, please click here
When Theodore Roosevelt explored the Amazon a century ago, he was enthralled by the mighty river that ran “from west to east, from the sunset to the sunrise, from the Andes to the Atlantic.” In the former U.S. president’s 1914 travelogue Through the Brazilian Wilderness, he waxed lyrical about the “great trees, the network of bush ropes, the...
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