International Thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil

[Scheme]

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.

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Thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

www.foxnews.com

Massive stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed for upcoming COP30 climate summit’s 4-lane highway: ‘This is a loss’

The eight-mile stretch of new highway has gouged a deep gash through a large swath of Amazon rainforest just in time for world leaders to convene to discuss how much they care about the Amazon rain…

nypost.com

You can't make this stuff up. I think we can all agree if this is completely true then it is as equally idiotic as it sounds...

 

[Siver!]

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

Thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

www.foxnews.com

Massive stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed for upcoming COP30 climate summit’s 4-lane highway: ‘This is a loss’

The eight-mile stretch of new highway has gouged a deep gash through a large swath of Amazon rainforest just in time for world leaders to convene to discuss how much they care about the Amazon rain…

nypost.com

You can't make this stuff up. I think we can all agree if this is completely true then it is as equally idiotic as it sounds...

It's definitely true, and an extremely Brazilian way of treating the environment.

 

[Deorum]

Sick.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Climate change is fake and gay. Bring back conservation.

 

[HereticBD]

About as funny as having that climate change convention(maybe it's the same one) in Saudi Arabia.

Hey climate alarmists, they are openly laughing at your useful idiocy, and you get your information from them. Feel stupid yet?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

About as funny as having that climate change convention(maybe it's the same one) in Saudi Arabia.

Hey climate alarmists, they are openly laughing at your useful idiocy, and you get your information from them. Feel stupid yet?

Just be a environmentalist in general. People using climate scepticism as an excuse to shit on the environment in general is going to destroy the planet for our children.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

I'd bet these plans were long made and they just needed an excuse. Absolutely disgusting.

 

[Croo67]

People will still clap like seals at whatever money-making scam comes out of this conference.

 

[Loiosh]

Gee, I wonder if this story is being amplified to generate support for smarter climate solutions, or to attack climate activism.

 

[Deorum]

Climate change is fake and gay. Bring back conservation.

Where have all the conservation conservatives gone? It would seem they've been almost entirely repealed and replaced by turbo-capitalist shitheads since the 1980s. The irony is that many of the most consequential wilderness conservation and environmental protection statutes ever to become codified into United States law did so during Republican POTUS administrations, from Abraham Lincoln to Richard Nixon. What good would so-called "prosperity" be if everyone's breathing in toxic fumes and drinking contaminated water. At one point in time, our rivers were literally on fire and bald eagles were damn near driven to extinction.

 

[Confucamus]

That's one way to piss off the anacondas. You're all dead now.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Where have all the conservation conservatives gone? It would seem they've been almost entirely repealed and replaced by turbo-capitalist shitheads since the 1980s. The irony is that many of the most consequential wilderness conservation and environmental protection statutes ever to become codified into United States law did so during Republican POTUS administrations, from Abraham Lincoln to Richard Nixon. What good would so-called "prosperity" be if everyone's breathing in toxic fumes and drinking contaminated water. At one point in time, our rivers were literally on fire and bald eagles were damn near driven to extinction.

The amount of people that give a fuck about the environment is frighteningly low tbh. I'm a single issue voter on it but I'm slowly giving up hope that people care.

All I can do is make my political stance very clear to my kid so she can pass it down and hopefully my grandkids don't hate me, because a lot of our grandkids are going to fucking hate our generation.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

That's one way to piss off the anacondas. You're all dead now.

- That's why i hate Lula and Bolsonaro, and those worthless artists that suport Lula. They dont care about preservation. Every little inch of Amazon if full of life, and several rareanmimals, from 16 fett black caimans to giant anacondas, to small frogs and plants. Giant vitória régias that were only discovered a couople of years ago, to deadly Goliath tarantulas bigger than the Australia conterpart, and we could see all them burned, when the "protesters" were put
ing fire on Florests, juts to bring Lula back. Those politicians only care bout their pockets, Lula actual Preservation minister Marina, his husband is owner of everal acres in the amazon, and they were burned.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

The amount of people that give a fuck about the environment is frighteningly low tbh. I'm a single issue voter on it but I'm slowly giving up hope that people care.

All I can do is make my political stance very clear to my kid so she can pass it down and hopefully my grandkids don't hate me, because a lot of our grandkids are going to fucking hate our generation.

- THis is true. My uncle got ofended, because he is old, and old people dont care about mother nature, i said it's because he is envy, that trees can be erect, unlike him. Dude got all ofended!

 

[gspieler]

They're building a road in the Amazon. And Leo flies around on a private jet. Checkmate, libs.

 

[Deorum]

The amount of people that give a fuck about the environment is frighteningly low tbh. I'm a single issue voter on it but I'm slowly giving up hope that people care.

All I can do is make my political stance very clear to my kid so she can pass it down and hopefully my grandkids don't hate me, because a lot of our grandkids are going to fucking hate our generation.

I've kind of resigned myself to the fate of the world at large, and I think that's why I tend to have a more narrow and intense focus on the protection and preservation of IUCN Category I & II ecosystems and wilderness areas. From what I gather, you seem to be particularly concerned about the existential threats posed to global biodiversity, wildlife, and perpetual habitat loss. But it isn't all so dreary, at least not everywhere.

There is essentially nothing that I take more pride in as an American citizen than its advent and export of the conservation movement to the rest of the world. It remains the most robust system on earth with an entire suite of permanent federal laws for enforcement. And there are few that have made a more meaningful impact than the ESA, which has saved over 99% of its listed threatened and endangered species from extinction over the last half-century.

By the mid-1960s, the bald eagle population of the contiguous US had dwindled to a dire 487 total nesting pairs. Can you even imagine the embarrassment and shame of driving the endemic species that serves as the national symbol of your country - a status that predates the Constitution itself - to extinction? Fuck that. The law passed unanimously in the Senate and cleared the House by a vote of 390-12. Today, there are over 70,000 nesting pairs with an estimated 316,700 individuals.

The Endangered Species Act

www.biologicaldiversity.org

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation, the ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973. The Supreme Court of the United States has described it as the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted by any nation.

 

[PainIsLIfe]

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

Thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

www.foxnews.com

Massive stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed for upcoming COP30 climate summit’s 4-lane highway: ‘This is a loss’

The eight-mile stretch of new highway has gouged a deep gash through a large swath of Amazon rainforest just in time for world leaders to convene to discuss how much they care about the Amazon rain…

nypost.com

You can't make this stuff up. I think we can all agree if this is completely true then it is as equally idiotic as it sounds...

Is it more ridiculous than all the people flying to Europe on private planes to "save" the environment?

It's all a joke. If the people were serious these meetings would be zoom calls

 

[panamaican]

Pretty sad stuff. Also undermines the seriousness of the issue. If we'll deforest parts of the Amazon to accommodate a short term summit, what exactly is the argument against someone proposing doing similar things for a long term goals?

People really are short-sighted.

 

[Koro_11]

Insert Greta “how dare you” face.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I've kind of resigned myself to the fate of the world at large, and I think that's why I tend to have a more narrow and intense focus on the protection and preservation of IUCN Category I & II ecosystems and wilderness areas. From what I gather, you seem to be particularly concerned about the existential threats posed to global biodiversity, wildlife, and perpetual habitat loss. But it isn't all so dreary, at least not everywhere.

There is essentially nothing that I take more pride in as an American citizen than its advent and export of the conservation movement to the rest of the world. It remains the most robust system on earth with an entire suite of permanent federal laws for enforcement. And there are few that have made a more meaningful impact than the ESA, which has saved over 99% of its listed threatened and endangered species from extinction over the last half-century.

By the mid-1960s, the bald eagle population of the contiguous US had dwindled to a dire 487 total nesting pairs. Can you even imagine the embarrassment and shame of driving the endemic species that serves as the national symbol of your country - a status that predates the Constitution itself - to extinction? Fuck that. The law passed unanimously in the Senate and cleared the House by a vote of 390-12. Today, there are over 70,000 nesting pairs with an estimated 316,700 individuals.

The Endangered Species Act

www.biologicaldiversity.org

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation, the ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973. The Supreme Court of the United States has described it as the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted by any nation.

That's all good bud, as someone with a global concern anyone fighting for their ecosystems on a local level is a friend of mine.