<story><title>As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/as-amazon-deforestation-hits-12-year-high-france-rejects-brazilian-soy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>As I understand it, Brazil has recently asked the wealthy nations of the world to each pay $1 Billion USD to preserve chunks of the Amazon. Given the wealthy world is asking a much poorer country not to fully exploit its natural resources for the sake of the world, I think they have a fair point. If we want them to protect the Amazon, the rest of the world should help pay for it.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there’s a way for the UN to purchase the Amazon as a global protected natural preserve? What other areas would be good targets?</text></comment>
<story><title>As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/as-amazon-deforestation-hits-12-year-high-france-rejects-brazilian-soy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>What percentage of its old growth forests does France retain?&lt;p&gt;If the answer is a very small number, doesn&amp;#x27;t that make historical France guilty of what these measures seek to prevent happening in Brazil?&lt;p&gt;To the extent this is a moral argument, shouldn&amp;#x27;t France atone for its misdeeds by regenerating wild forests, to be left unmolested in perpetuity?&lt;p&gt;If nobody is advocating any such thing, perhaps this isn&amp;#x27;t a moral argument, or even an environmental argument.  Perhaps it&amp;#x27;s an economic initiative from the people who stand to gain from the French production of soy beans.</text></comment>