{"id":58780,"date":"2025-03-15T19:28:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T08:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58780"},"modified":"2025-03-15T19:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T08:28:36","slug":"amazon-forest-felled-to-build-road-for-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58780","title":{"rendered":"Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brazillian_Highway.jpg\" alt=\"Brazillian Highway\" width=\"986\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brazillian_Highway.jpg 986w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brazillian_Highway-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brazillian_Highway-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit.<\/p>\n<p>Destroying the village in order to save it. by John Leake<\/p>\n<p>As a lifelong environmentalist (I founded the first high school environmental club in Texas in 1986), I have long found the modern Climate Cult to be one of the most corrupt, hypocritical, self-serving parcels of mercenary frauds operating in a world that is full of such cabals.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u2019s report that a four-lane highway is being constructed through the Brazilian rainforest to provide a transportation artery to a forthcoming \u201cClimate Summit\u201d vexed me, but didn\u2019t surprise me. As BBC reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>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 Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people &#8211; including world leaders &#8211; at the conference in November.<\/p>\n<p>The state government touts the highway&#8217;s &#8220;sustainable&#8221; credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit.<\/p>\n<p>Note the Orwellian humbug that the highway is \u201csustainable\u201d\u2014an epithet that is applied to every mercenary scheme masquerading as environmental initiative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefocalpoints.com\/p\/amazon-forest-felled-to-build-road\">https:\/\/www.thefocalpoints.com\/p\/amazon-forest-felled-to-build-road<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit. 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