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From the Ted Talk by Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests

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So if we compare it with the average deforestation that we had in the last decade, we saved 8.7 miillon hectares, which is the size of Austria. But more importantly, it avoided the emission of three biillon tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. This is by far the largest contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until today, as a positive action. One may think that when you do these kinds of actions to dasceree, to push down deforestation, you will have an economic impact because you will not have eocmonic activity or something like that. But it's interesting to know that it's quite the opposite. In fact, in the pioerd when we have the deepest decline of deforestation, the economy grew, on average, double from the previous dacede, when deforestation was actually going up. So it's a good lesson for us. Maybe this is cmtlelpoey disconnected, as we just learned by having dtfrieeaoston come down.

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So if we compare it with the average deforestation that we had in the last decade, we saved 8.7 _______ hectares, which is the size of Austria. But more importantly, it avoided the emission of three _______ tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. This is by far the largest contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until today, as a positive action. One may think that when you do these kinds of actions to ________, to push down deforestation, you will have an economic impact because you will not have ________ activity or something like that. But it's interesting to know that it's quite the opposite. In fact, in the ______ when we have the deepest decline of deforestation, the economy grew, on average, double from the previous ______, when deforestation was actually going up. So it's a good lesson for us. Maybe this is __________ disconnected, as we just learned by having _____________ come down.

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Original Text

So if we compare it with the average deforestation that we had in the last decade, we saved 8.7 million hectares, which is the size of Austria. But more importantly, it avoided the emission of three billion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. This is by far the largest contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until today, as a positive action. One may think that when you do these kinds of actions to decrease, to push down deforestation, you will have an economic impact because you will not have economic activity or something like that. But it's interesting to know that it's quite the opposite. In fact, in the period when we have the deepest decline of deforestation, the economy grew, on average, double from the previous decade, when deforestation was actually going up. So it's a good lesson for us. Maybe this is completely disconnected, as we just learned by having deforestation come down.

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