New research suggests that a conservation basic income could be fair and effective. It could also cost as much as $6 trillion per year.
In 2007, the Indonesian government launched a program aimed at reducing poverty by paying money to poor women with children as long as they sent their kids to school and got basic healthcare.
The payments had a surprising side effect: Deforestation declined by around 30% when the money began flowing to nearby rural villages, scientists found .“Modest, but persistent, transfers of cash to extremely poor households can provide both social and environmental benefits,” lead author Paul Ferraro, […]
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