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428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

Freakonomics Radio

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Deforestation in the Amazon

The lian government is really a hero in terms of strategies for slowing deforestation. By two thousand and twelve, de forestation had declined almost eighty per cent across the entire brazilian amazon. In two thousand five, de forestation is now back on the rise. This last year, there was a thirty per cent increase over the prior year, were it about half of the historical average. And so twenty thousand square kilometers of forest ten to fall....

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