Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
www.bbc.com
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    53·
    1 day ago

    Are we gonna pretend this is being hosted in the middle of virgin rainforest and not in a large city? And that the summit is the only reason someone would make a road?

    Terrible headline that only serves to further anti-climate agenda

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
        52·
        1 day ago

        You’re right, they should have built the road through the city by demolishing black neighborhoods like they do the the good ol US of A.

        The main cause of deforestation isn’t urban development. It’s cattle, animal feed and mining.

        • 9bananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 hours ago

          or, you know, host it somewhere with existing fucking infrastructure???

          it’s not like brazil doesn’t have any conference centres anywhere else…

          • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            See, this is exactly why the headline is misleading bullshit. It makes people think the only reason the road is being built is the conference.

            It’s a state capital, that is a port city, connected to an industrial hub.

    • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      The article goes into more detail? If people aren’t willing to read past the headline that’s their own fault. We can’t babysit grown adults.

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Sure, let’s excuse journalistic malpractice that deliberately creates outrage, what could possibly go wrong