G7 Amazon Pledge Comparisons

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G7 Amazon Pledge Comparisons refer to a series of comparisons Twitter users made between the $20 million pledge to combat the 2019 Amazon Rainforest Fire made by countries at the G7 conference and other, ostensibly more frivolous endeavors which cost a similar or much greater amount of money, illustrating what they saw as the ineffectiveness and triteness of the monetary pledge considering the importance of the Amazon rainforest.

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On August 26th, 2019, French president Emmanuel Macron announced that the countries of the G7 organization -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. -- had agreed to a $20 million fund to immediately help combat the forest fires in the Amazon rainforest.^[1]

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After Macron's announcement, Twitter users were quick to point out that $20 million appears to be a relatively paltry sum of money to help the rainforest when compared with the budgets of other, more frivolous endeavors. Twitter user @heathercampbell^[2] tweeted that the animated film Ferngully: The Last Rainforest cost $24 million to make, noting the irony that a film about saving a rainforest cost more than what the G7 countries were pledging to help save a real rainforest (shown below, left). User @HKesvani^[3] pointed out that the film Boss Baby cost $200 million to make, gaining over 29,000 retweets and 123,000 likes (shown below, right).

While many pointed to ostensibly silly movies that cost more than what G7 pledged to fight the Amazon forest fire,^[4] others pointed to other large sums that dwarf the G7's pledge. Twitter user @rodger pointed out that the amount was less than Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Nick Foles' average salary (shown below, left). @jordanuhl pointed out that American tax payers have paid $100 million for Donald Trump's golf trips in his time as President (shown below, right). These comparisons were covered by Daily Dot^[4] and Splinter.^[5]

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