Posted on 03/12/2025 6:48:54 AM PDT by dynachrome
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.
The state government touts the highway's "sustainable" credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.
The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit.
Along the partially built road, lush rainforest towers on either side - a reminder of what was once there. Logs are piled high in the cleared land which stretches more than 13km (8 miles) through the rainforest into Belém.
Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
“Adler Silveira, the state government’s infrastructure secretary, listed this highway as one of 30 projects happening in the city to “prepare” and “modernise” it, so “we can have a legacy for the population and, more importantly, serve people for COP30 in the best possible way”.
Speaking to the BBC, he said it was a “sustainable highway” and an “important mobility intervention”.”
When the hypocrisy burns.
Hey Trump, Elon and Rubio, you need to cut more, much more.
Did the funds to build it come from the USA?
Sounds likely
Ironically, they are now better protected from forest fires than California, which will reduce pollution. Way to go!
More people heaping praise on the naked emperor.
“There’s a place called the rainforest that truly sucks a$$....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaAFUXvKaRE
it’s ok. the trees will grow back. why is everyone so worried?
What a waste , you can bet these idiots have no clue that climate is just weather
Naw, surely John Kerry and Bill Gates financed it out of pocket since they are true believers, right? Probably will need to build a new airport for their private jets so they don’t have to bother with regular town traffic to and from airport.
Prince William 'is looking forward' to role at Cop30 climate change conference in Brazil
Nothing screams saving the planet more than cutting down the Amazon Rainforest to build a road so people can get to a city after flying in on private jets to discuss climate change.
Never Mind the super hi-way...
How long and how many runways are going to be put in so that all of those beautiful people can land their private jets?
But is the road wide enough to land private jets?
From the “You can’t make this sh!t up” News Service.
Wonder what the new conference center will look like and how many 5 start resorts will be built for the elite attendees? Then just like every Olympic village built in eastern Europe/Russia they will fall into disarray.
Trump should mention this in a press conference. It would certainly appear that climate change is just a scam, and those who are at the top don’t actually believe there’s a problem, or they wouldn’t be doing this.
The comedy is never ending
Not even the Bee could come up with this kind of irony.
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