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. . . .
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. . . .
Claudio Verequete lives about 200m from where the road will be. He used to make an income from harvesting açaí berries from trees that once occupied the space.
“Everything was destroyed,” he says, gesturing at the clearing.
“Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family.” . . .
His community won’t be connected to the road, given its walls on either side.
“For us who live on the side of the highway, there will be no benefits. There will be benefits for the trucks that will pass through. If someone gets sick, and needs to go to the centre of Belém, we won’t be able to use it.” . . .
Encourage countries expand government & outlaw gas stoves, gas cars and other things used by the middle class.
Encourage countries expand government & give billions in tax dollars to big donors to make windmills, solar panels and other things the middle class does not want to pay for.
Encourage countries to expand government & sign international agreements forcing countries with clean economies and high-paying jobs call themselves polluters and therefore jump through hoops and restrict economic growth.
Sponsor lots and lots of “cultural shows” so that lefty artists can get even more tax dollars.
The Extraordinary Secretariat for COP30, linked to the Office of the Chief of Staff (Casa Civil) of the Presidency of Brasil, clarifies that the construction work for the Avenida Liberdade highway in Belém, Pará … is not under the responsibility of the federal government nor is it part of the 33 infrastructure projects planned for COP30 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference) to be held in November of this year.
We emphasize that the headline of the news story, in both English and Portuguese, misinforms readers by misleadingly suggesting a connection between the construction project and the federal government’s actions in preparing for the Conference …"
Yeah except the Brazilian gov’t was touting it before they realized they’d get bad publicity.
The state government of Pará had touted the idea of this highway, known as Avenida Liberdade, as early as 2012, but it had repeatedly been shelved because of environmental concerns.
Now a host of infrastructure projects have been resurrected or approved to prepare the city for the COP summit.
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”.
Apparently the people who want to send taxpayer money to corporate donors and call it “environmentalism” will lie about highways too.
Oh looky! Here come the libs to lib-splain this away.
How anyone could pretend that a highway (not just a trail or a dirt road, but a highway) could be cut like that without government approval would be quite amusing if it weren’t so sad.
Interestingly enough and this actually fits the climate discussion quite nicely but the hysteria over tree felling has calmed down significantly over the past 30 years. I bet in part because of plankton algae etc
I think the hysteria has died down because
deep in their hearts, all the protesters, and all the internet environmentalists, and the people who fly into global summits etc. . . . .
know in their hearts
that preserving trees
will never be enough
to offset this:
The warmer the planet will get, the more cyanobacteria will make oxygen, the cooler the planet will get.
Where climate alarmists have always failed is when anyone with a brain stem looks at a simple timeline of interglacial cycles and realizes we’re living on the tail-end of the longest, most stable period of warm climate on record.
That luck will run out, there’s nothing we can do to stop it, and it’s not our fault. Pray that burning hydrocarbons actually warms the planet up. Our survival depends on it.
Oh it’s probably our fault
(If by “our” you mean China and India.)
I’m not sure it’s as bad as the scare mongers say.
Last I checked the UPCC forecast sea levels will rise 15 inches in only a hundred years or so . . . causing junk journalists to write all sorts of scary stories about Manhattan underwater and islands disappearing. (ummm 15 inches 100 years from now.)
