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Carbon Credits Are Destroying the Amazon

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Carbon Credits Are Destroying the Amazon
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In the verdant green of the Amazon, we can glimpse the color of money. Apuí is a rural municipality in the southern Amazonas state of Brazil, with a population of 20,647. The town was founded in 1989, in a broad stretch of coffee country beyond the reach of telephone service, television, or paved roads. But as Brazil developed, so did Apuí. The roads were built, the town expanded, and Apuí became a fixture on Brazil’s mighty agribusiness frontier. Now, the “Coffee Ca

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