Brazil: ‘Gringos’ Must Pay to Keep Rainforests
Up yours! (a gringo)
Some Gringo needs to give both Lula and Chavez the Salvador Allende treatment.
Multiple books have been published, showing the importance of natural ecosystems to a nation state.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a perfect example. Most countries that devastate their natural habitat doom themselves.
If the Brazilians want to suffer from runoff, acid leaching, deforestation, loss of natural wildlife, and erosion, then more power to them. Their whole country can turn into one giant favela for all I care. Well, more of one, I guess.