[vorg]

> further action on the part of Brazil's government will also be essential so it will be interesting to see just how strictly this update to the forest code is enforced

Perhaps Brazil should get foreign governments to pay for all enforcement, as it seems foreigners are the ones benefitting from Amazon forest protections.

Converting a huge river system to agriculture and farming for food is what makes other great powers rise around them, viz China around the Yellow and Yangzi, India around the Ganges, the US around the Mississippi, Russia around the Volga, and in the past Egypt and Mesopotamia. Brazil's paying a lot in forgone development by not chopping down the trees, and should at least be asking the foreigners who benefit for cash in return for enforcement.

[gilini]

I'm not sure if our government would come up with a compelling argument to get money from other countries. We have a history of succumbing to foreign financial pressure too easily (reflex from our weak economy), and our government does almost everything to keep a good relation with about every country out there.

We're the good neighbor that gets abused now and then for being too soft.

[rglullis]

Carbon credits.