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Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio

Society & Culture:Documentary

428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

2020-07-30
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Everyone agrees that massive deforestation is an environmental disaster. But most of the standard solutions — scolding the Brazilians, invoking universal morality — ignore the one solution that might actually work

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