At 09:37 PM 7/24/01 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>1. Is the rain forest purchasable by me?
I was thinking you could at least donate it to The Nature Conservancy (one
of my favorite charities.)
>2. If I do purchase it and desire to protect it am I guaranteed that the
>resident government won't confiscate it and so with it what they like?
As Alberto noted, that is pretty much guaranteed in Brazil.
>3. Am I sure that I wont be able to come up with the $1 B to buy the rain
>forest through other means and thus save both the 10 sq. miles and the rain
>forest?
That's pretty much irrelevant. Unless you are coming up with $1bil from
using the 10 sq mis as preserved wilderness.
But if you come up with the $1bil from other means, that just means that
you can buy $2 bil worth of rainforest. The tradeoff here is still valid,
you can either keep 10sq mi of wilderness in the United States, of purchase
$1bil worth of wilderness in the locations of your choice. (I'm thinking
that you could buy some huge chunks of timber concessions in Alaska or
Maine.)
JDG
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