As for the rest of us....we must....
(Eat Zee Bugs!)
Posted on 03/12/2025 11:06:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An eight-mile stretch of protected Amazon rainforest has been felled to make space for a new four-lane highway in time for the COP30 climate summit.
Drone footage and images have revealed thick dirt lanes cutting through the lush greenery as the Brazilian government prepare for the conference in November.
The road will be used to ease traffic in and out of the city of Belem, which will host a staggering 50,000 people - including world leaders.
Logs have already been spotted piled high on the sides of the cleared land and diggers have appeared paving over the wetland in the world's richest biological reservoir.
The state government of Pará had previously shelved plans for the highway, known as Avenida Liberdade, due to environmental concerns.
However, the project was revived along with other infrastructure plans ahead of COP30.
Adler Silveira, the state government's infrastructure secretary, described the highway as an 'important mobility intervention' and a 'sustainable highway,' but several locals and conservationists have hailed blasted the decision, highlighting the substantial environmental impact.
'We can have a legacy for the population and, more importantly, serve people for COP30 in the best possible way,' he said.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has defended the project, saying the summit will be 'a COP in the Amazon, not a COP about the Amazon.'
Lula said the conference would highlight the needs of the Amazon and show the world what the federal government has done to protect it.
But 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.
Speaking to the BBC, Claudio Verequete, a , who lives around 200m from the highway said the new road...
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Well yeah. You want them helicoptered in?
Babylon Bee?!? Getting hard to tell.
They need a big road, to accommodate the big trucks, which will deliver the champagne and caviar and lobster, to these VIPs. They enjoy the best of everything, without regard to the carbon footprint, as they lecture us about our sinful carbon footprints......
The US has about 3 million square miles and about 100 milion cows and bulls - about one bovine per 20 acres.
Hilarious!!! 🤣🤣🤣
C3P0? He still around?
No it doesn't. It's a self contained biosphere where all the oxygen produced from CO2 absorption is used up by all the decaying and growing plant life on the jungle floor. It's a zero sum gain........
The oceans, which comprise 70% of this planet's surface, are the primary source of oxygen from the CO2 being absorbed.
This is the kind of crap South Park made fun of these people doing 25 years ago, now they do it for real.
There is some really great hardwood there. Would love to be able to get a good chunk of that to Missouri.
“You white Americans make me sick! [emphasizes his disgust with thumps on the table] You waste food, oil, and everything else because you’re so rich, and then you tell the rest of the world to save the rainforest because you like its pretty flowers.”
The absolute hypocrisy is deep and should be mocked. But once all the “dignitaries” leave and that 8 mile scar is left alone it will turn back to jungle in no time.
” Eight-mile stretch of Amazon forest is felled... to build four-lane highway for COP30 climate summit”
” Eight-mile stretch of Amazon forest is felled... to build four-lane highway for COP30 climate summit HYPOCRITES
There, fixed it
They better hurry. Not very far along.
He took Chief Sharkey’s spot.
The elitists continue to demonstrate that sacrificing for climate change is not on their agenda. Makes one wonder if they really believe in it. /Rhetorical question.
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