Posted on 03/12/2025 2:16:07 PM PDT by CFW
A new four-lane highway requiring the decimation of tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built to carry globalist elites to the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
The BBC reports the aim is to ease vehicle traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people – including world leaders – at the U.N. sponsored conference in November.
COP30 will also see the usual thousands of attendees flying in for the occasion.
Critics are quick to point out the sheer hypocrisy of this deforestation as it contradicts the claimed purpose of a climate summit. The BBC report notes:
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.
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.”
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“In order to save the rain forest we had to destroy it.”
50,000 people at a “climate summit”?
Super hypocrites.
Ship all our illegal muzzies there.
I wonder about the carbon footprint, of thousands of people attending, when the purpose is for them to lecture us about our excessive carbon footprint......
The ‘protected’ Amazon rain forest doesn’t seem very protected...
Need the Environmental Update Chainsaw Music.
Thousands will fly there in private jets to determine that I have to give up my gas powered leaf blower to save the planet. Now it makes sense.
I guess the reason holding meeting there is to see how the protected Amazon forest is disappearing.
They see it right away!!!
We need to do our part—and stop paying dues to the UN.
Save our planet!
Has there ever been such an event held in America? I think not. And also think it is a way to add millions to the economy in those foreign crap holes.
Musk will stop the flow of the US $$$ — they’ll be lucky to get a one-lane highway in the end.
The Amazon jungle is nothing but a self contained biosphere, where the oxygen produced by the canopy is consumed by undergrowth of decaying plant life and the newly emerging plant life. It's a ero sum gain.
It's the oceans, which comprise 70% of this planet's surface, that absorb the majority of the CO2 and replace it with oxygen......
I utterly loathe how leftist/globalist/WEF parasites twist language to try hiding their hypocrisies and trying to attenuate the rank evils they commit.
breathtaking hypocrisy
It'd be worth it if an errant Ukraine missile hits the Climate "Summit".
your description of the amazon jungle describes washington dc...
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