I disagree because losing 18% of the rain forest each day has catastrophic affects on the rest of the world like green house gases because trees give off oxygen also 137 plant, animal and insect species lost every single day due to rain forest deforestation also some of the plants are used for medicine. Most people also think a brand new mahogany dining table looks good, which it does but this is the problem most of the deforestation is for mahogany trees to make into the expensive mahogany tables and chairs for 1 mahogany tree its estimated around 30 other trees to get to the 1 mahogany tree and the most popular way of clearing the other trees is burning them which also adds to the green house gases. Brazil may need to progress in their country but they could be other ways to help the country to progress also not to mention there are people who live in the amazon and have lived there for thousands of years and are being forced to move.