Halting the destruction and degradation of tropical rain forests is a key to preserving the world’s biodiversity and slowing global climate change. Since this will benefit the entire world during this...

Halting the destruction and degradation of tropical rain forests is a key to preserving the world’s biodiversity and slowing global climate change. Since this will benefit the entire world during this and future generations, should the United States and the world’s other more-developed nations pay tropical, less-developed countries to preserve their remaining tropical forests, as Norway and the United Kingdom have done? Explain. Do you think that the long-term economic and ecological benefits of doing this would outweigh the short-term economic costs? Explain.