Issac+Han's+Group

ISAAC/PETER/PATRICK

1. We strongly believe the notion that countries should be allowed to govern themselves. Instead of taking over a country that has the Amazon rainforest in it, we believe that there should be incentives for the country with the rainforest to not cut down its forests. We don’t believe that the UN should sacrifice natural sovereignty in place for the world because the notion of national sovereignty is an underlying value that is in the heart of the organization to be the “peace-keeper” of the world. We must preserve the rain-forests, but at the same time, we have to respect the sovereignty of the nations.

2. No, the US doesn’t have the right to protest the policies of Brazil. The US is the largest polluter in the world, and it doesn’t have a right to tell other countries to do what the US does not do. Unless the US can get their carbon dioxide emissions the same as Brazil’s, or if they compensate Brazil economically, they should just shut up.

3. The US is Brazil’s largest trading partner. 14.1% of all of Brazil’s exports to go the US, and all that they export causes more destruction in the US, with items such as iron, ore, soy beans, coffee beans, shoes, and lumber. This would destroy a lot of the rainforest. For example, soy beans would require deforestation and setting up farms. Iron would require clearing forests to set up mines. And lumber would require cutting down trees for its wood.

As the world’s most foremost economic, political, and military power, the US should play the role model for other nations to follow and reduce carbon emissions and enforce regulations upon themselves. Also, they should decrease imports that would harm the rainforests and the precious places in the world.