Biden: “We Should Be Paying the Brazilians Not to Cut Down Their Forest”

The president also told his audience that he wants to pay Brazil and other “third world” countries to protect their forests — but seemed to sense the derogatory implication of the term and backtracked.

“You’re not going to — maybe — like this. We should be paying the Brazilians not to cut down the forests. We got to cut ours down. We got to cut ours down. We got the benefit of it. We’ve got these third world countries — not third world, some are — in Africa and in South America. We got to — the industrial countries have to help,” Biden said.