Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
“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.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
Who needs a giant asteroid when we have these assholes?
@aral One might say they seem to live in another world but I imagine the unbearable heat and rising flood waters will eventually affect them too.
@aral Something similar happened in Japan when I first came 25 years ago. Event about climate change held on newly-constructed grounds. Wood from felled trees used for bleachers. Bento served in plastic containers with disposable chopsticks.
@aral This has made me think, not for the first time: our species doesn't deserve all that the planet and evolution has given us. We deserve what's coming and I hope all the other species are very happy and thrive on Earth once we're gone.
FFS! Why isn’t the thing held online anyway?
@aral this is so crazy! The very idea of a COP climate summit is a terrible idea. To cause the destruction of protected rainforest makes it a crime that every participant should be ashamed
@SaanichGuy I don’t think petroleum industry lobbyists can feel shame.
@aral It's difficult for The Onion to make headlines these days.
@aral
Who's gonna stop all of this COP bullshit?
@RavenLuni Gotta say, it’s not looking good unless we can get rid of the relative handful of assholes fucking shit up.
@aral As a person studying CO2 removal, I always debate with people who say climate scientists are useless or diss Greta Thunberg. But this is the most hypocritical thing I have ever seen. Shame on the scientists if they don't boycott COP30.
@aral Fortunately, it’s not for landing strips. Where will the private jets land?
@aral this seems like it would be satire
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And now they have opened up vehicular access to enable and facilitate the destruction of so much more of the rainforest. I'd say it is a deliberate strategy.
FFS
@aral climate slaughter for holy capitalism..
@aral irony is fucking dead
@aral mental
than Belém 