[gdubs]

If carbon was priced to reflect its negative externalities the Amazon [Rain Forest] wouldn’t have to generate money because clearing it for agriculture would be prohibitively expensive.

[rlpb]

Perhaps the rest of the world should be sending money to the rainforest areas to represent the value to the world climate that they provide.

[gdubs]

Absolutely; pay a dividend to people that comes out of the revenue of the carbon tax.

[riffraff]

I'd imagine people wouldn't really pay for a permit to cut trees, the forest would just accidentally get burned or something like that.

If we'd make it not economically useful to burn it down, because agricultural products were less profitable, that would work, probably.