One way to slow the rate of CO 2 emissions is to reduce the clearing of forests—especially in lessdeveloped tropical countries where intense deforestation is taking place. Should the United States and...

One way to slow the rate of CO₂
emissions is to reduce the clearing of forests—especially in lessdeveloped tropical countries where intense deforestation is taking place. Should the United States and other more-developed countries pay poorer countries to stop cutting their forests because the resulting climate change will affect the United States and other nations throughout the world? Explain.