I can't decide if this is economic brilliance or complete insanity:
Under pressure to preserve the environment while at the same time ease the poverty of his people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has come up with an unusual solution.
Correa wants wealthy nations to pay Ecuador $350 million a year in exchange for leaving an estimated 1 billion barrels of oil under the ground in the pristine Yasuni rainforest.
On the one hand I like the idea that Correa is making the first offer in the bargaining process, on the other hand it has the slightly odd flavor of someone holding a gun to their own head and threatening to shoot if we don't pay.
