[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

I think this should be looked at from Brazil's perspective.

For generations the west has moved ahead with industrialisation, clearing anything in its path and keeping developing nations firmly in their place stifling their growth. They never cared one bit what effect they were having on the environment and America and China still don't.

Now we are saying oops we may have messed up, I know what we can do, we can once again dictate to those nations what they can and cannot do.

The world doesn't work that way. We are not in the **** because Brazil has started cutting down trees and has had a few fires. We are in the **** because we said f you to everyone and caused the problem in the first place. We caused the problem, we should fix it and that certainly doesn't include telling the likes of Brazil what they have to do yet again.

Yeah can't argue with that tbh, it is awful at all that's being lost over there but for the west to get on it's high horse and vilify Brazilians who are probably only trying to put food in their families mouths, for something that the west has done and thrived on in the past, it's just really really hypocritical and very unfair.

If we want places like Brazil to help us all by protecting the rainforests, than the west need to subsidise the farmers that are losing out to protect that rain forest