Episode
53. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest
People I (Mostly) Admire · Nov 27, 2021 · 33 min
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. Originally released on Freakonomics Radio, Steve gives an update on what’s happened in the two years since this episode first ran.