Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit

[Deleted member 317777]

I'm not apologising but lies and exaggeration is how conspiracies theories start.

This is a fact. Rainforest down in the name of climate change.

They could meet in Orlando and see the new epic park.

Why pull protected trees down

 

[denso13]

Rainforest down in the name of climate change.

No, it's in the name of building a new road. Climate change wasn't the reason or cause.

Why pull protected trees down

Because they are numpties? They think they can justify it, who knows.

 

[johnny2007]

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

www.bbc.com

It shows how “seriously” we are taking climate change.

It's all boll@x and anyone believing those crooks will rot in hell.

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.

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.

That does nothing to the planet, it's absolutely fine.
I am the destroyer because I run a 20 year old car instead of replacing it every 3 years with a new one.
We know feckall...

 

[Deleted member 265726]

Lula is falling out of favour with the working class vote in Brazil. Go figure.

 

[gas112]

I'm not apologising but lies and exaggeration is how conspiracies theories start.

you mean like we were all going to die with covid ?

 

[Brigadier]

While it all seems ironic and hypocritical, it would all be worth it if real progress came from it.


If.

 

[Notch7]

My neighbours are both uni lecturers and climate change activists, ride bikes everywhere but think nothing of jumping on a jet and flying across the world every 5 min to some cockamimi climate conference.

You are lucky to have such intelligent neighbours.

I doubt you have anything in common with them

 

[Lirefighter]

The flip side I have been reading is that it might be the least environmentally harmful way of delivering economic development to this area.

The least environmentally harmful thing to do would be to not bring economic development to the area.
If those invited to the anual COP party were actually concerned about climate change (they're not, by the way) then economic development would be one of the worst things that they could promote.

 

[MNW67]

The least environmentally harmful thing to do would be to not bring economic development to the area.
If those invited to the anual COP party were actually concerned about climate change (they're not, by the way) then economic development would be one of the worst things that they could promote.

Do you mean all economic development everywhere, or just in this particular location?

 

[Lirefighter]

Do you mean all economic development everywhere, or just in this particular location?

Anywhere.
If co² will lead to our impending doom, like they say it will, then greater economic consumption will only produce more of it no matter where it takes place.
They should be advocating self sufficientcy, not consumerism.

 

[Deleted member 317777]

Do you mean all economic development everywhere, or just in this particular location?

Sausage

 

[MNW67]

I’d say cutting down protected rainforest trees is possible a bit different from building a business centre in Leeds.

If it helps bring increased prosperity to the area and stops them logging and clearing gigantic amounts of rainforest for cattle, then it might be a small price to pay.

 

[Deleted member 317777]

If it helps bring increased prosperity to the area and stops them logging and clearing gigantic amounts of rainforest for cattle, then it might be a small price to pay.

Is that what they are doing now ?

 

[MNW67]

Is that what they are doing now ?

It goes on massively in the Brazilian rain forest.

 

[Deleted member 317777]

It goes on massively in the Brazilian rain forest.

Oh right, so it’s ok then.