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428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

Freakonomics Radio

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The Tree Killing Arcologist

The amount of carbon stored in the amazon is over seventy times greater than the annual output of greenhouse gases. Destroying the amazon and releasing that amount of extra carbon into the atmosphere would utterly swamp everything society's been doing to reduce emissions. The prospect of avoiding the more catastrophic dimensions of climate change would be virtually gone....

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