Monday, July 08, 2019
The megadrought in the Amazon rainforest during the summer of 2005 caused widespread damage and die-offs to trees, as depicted in this photo taken in Western Amazonia in Brazil. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.
CAL MATTERS (SACRAMENTO) -- But the practice is controversial and, as a ProPublica investigation recently revealed, has a long track record of failure.
“You’d be trading certain, increased emissions for very uncertain, hoped-for reductions,” Kathleen McAfee, a professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University, told CALmatters. A fire or political reversal, for instance, could undo years of forest preservation in an instant.
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