From Duncan Cameron, Brighton, UK
You report that Pat Brown of Impossible Foods, a plant-based meat pioneer, has been trying to persuade British cattle farmers of the financial gain of moving from selling animals to growing trees and selling carbon offsets (11 December 2021, p 9).
In the same issue, you report on the impending catastrophe in the Amazon caused by the destruction of rainforest in favour of (among other things) cattle farming (p 42).
Can environmentally minded investors think big and launch an Amazon-based project along the same lines? This forest is possibly the greatest store of carbon on the planet, making Brazil potentially the Saudi Arabia of carbon offsetting – thus creating a healthy flow of profits for investors and Amazon residents alike.
