This is environmentalism in a nutshell.
The UN COP global warming summits exist, like most UN events, to allow the connected elites to fly to exotic places and wine, dine, bed and chat up each other, while plotting to impose their power on the world at large.
COP28 took place in Dubai, whose economy is built on oil, while COP29 headed to Baku whose economy is built on oil, but COP30 was hyped as taking place in the Brazilian rainforest. Environmentalists claim that the Amazon is endangered and yet they insist on visiting it. They claim that air travel is destroying the planet, yet they keep flying to places to discuss global warming, instead of using Zoom, and this time they’ve really done it.
Building a highway through a rainforest to discuss global warming is peak environmentalism.
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.
The state government touts the highway’s “sustainable” credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.
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.
Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area…
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”.
He added it would have wildlife crossings for animals to pass over, bike lanes and solar lighting. New hotels are also being built and the port is being redeveloped so cruise ships can dock there to accommodate excess visitors.
If you needed any more evidence that green is fake, it’s building a giant highway through a rainforest and then adding bike lanes and solar panels for ‘sustainability’.
This whole thing is a scam. It’s always been a scam. It’s a way to amass power and money, and for some, attack capitalism and push government and global government takeovers.
They do not believe that the oceans are rising, that temperatures are rising and that unless we cut back, humanity will die out.
That’s the lie they tell us to justify their lifestyles and their power.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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