Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
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.
It’s kind of worse when you see it on the map, because it appears to be running parallel to an existing developed area, like they built a bypass through the rainforest for the climate summit, not a road for someplace previously unconnected.
I swear those climate summits only exist so the super wealthy and powerful can rub our helplessness under our noses. There‘s no other explanation for this series of increasingly disgusting and perverted events. It‘s not just tone deafness, it‘s a display of power. They‘re fucking the planet simply because they can.
They pat themselves on the back while lying to the people about their achievements. Disgusting.
It's the balcony bailout party overlooking the occupy Wallstreet tents, just slightly better at hiding the contempt.
when they had the ASEAN in sf 23, they removed all the homeless people in the area for the week, its exactly like that. i saw a video recently how most countries practically gave up on said climate initiatives
Really hard to tell what's real and what's fake. What a timeline.
I've been reading "The Power Broker" about Bob Moses, who built an insane amount of expressways in New York. This reminds me of multiple instances in the book where he planned the route in a way that didn't seem to make sense until you learned that a powerful or wealthy person stood to gain from doing it that way.
Robert Moses is such a fascinating character.
Have you listened along with the 99pi Breakdown of the Power Broker? They just finished, and they had lots of guests including Robert Caro!, Pete Butigeg, and AOC.
until you learned that a powerful or wealthy person stood to gain from doing it that way.
He was also an incredibly petty and racist person. No one stood to gain from the only city park to have an animal motif being the one in Harlem having an monkey motif.
I always wondered why they can't just do a fucking Zoom meeting....
If I hadn't improved my mental health over the last few years I really think I would've offed myself already. It's so fucking depressing it's not even funny anymore.
Also, did they really need four lanes!?
We need to fucking end the conference industry. And I’m including big sports events like the Super Bowl, the Olympics, World Cup, etc. No more moving around and building new infrastructure constantly for it to be abandoned afterwards.
Just set the Olympics in Athens, Greece every four years, and stop with this massive waste. COP should be online only, considering its supposed goal.
Lmao
It's getting harder to believe that climate change is threat and not a grift when climate activist act this way.
Are you really going to sit here and deny global warming when you can literally see it with your own eyes these past 20 years?
These guys are rich, causing it, and pretending to care
Are you really going to sit here and deny global warming when you can literally see it with your own eyes these past 20 years?
Everyone says 2024 was one of the hottest, I didn't notice, spring didn't have many hot days and either did summer that I recall. I coach track in the spring and summer and take note of hot days. I don't remember the 23/24 winter and certainly don't remember the weather from the last 20 years. I have to "trust the science" for that kind of climate analysis. So no I have not seen it with my own eyes and unless you have been logging your own weather station for the last 20 years you have not either.