Huge Stretch of Amazon Rainforest Cut Down in Brazil to Make Way for Road to ‘Climate Summit’
“The state government has repeatedly insisted the highway is ‘sustainable’ — but that rings hollow to locals and conservationists who are condemning the project.”
You couldn’t make this up. No one would believe it.
In Brazil, a wide path is being cut through the rainforest to make way for a new highway. Why? Because they need a new road for an upcoming conference on climate change and the environment.
As Professor Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has been saying for years, “I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”
Newsweek reports:
Amazon Rainforest Cut Down for Climate Summit Highway
Tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon Rainforest are being cut down so a new highway can be built in preparation for the November COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
The BBC reports that preparations for the highway have already deforested some of the protected rainforest.
Newsweek has contacted COP30 and the Brazilian government via email for comment.
Why It Matters
COP30 is a climate event, previous versions of which attracted criticism for how their attendance from people flying all over the world can be harmful to the environment.
Deforestation, biodiversity loss and carbon emissions will be major themes at COP30, meaning many will see the move as contradictory. However, previous COP events have resulted in important environmental policy.
COP30’s location has provided an opportunity for investment and development into Belém that locals will benefit from.
What To Know
The state government of Pará has been considering the highway, known as Avenida Liberdade, which is supposed to help ease traffic, since 2012.
It has been shelved for environmental concerns in the past but has since been listed as one of 30 projects Belém is undertaking to prepare for the COP30 summit, which is set to see more than 50,000 people, including top world leaders, visit the city.
This is right up there with clearing trees to make way for solar panels, or thousands of elites flying their private jets to a climate change event.
BEYOND PARODY: Thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cut down to build a highway for a Climate Summit in Brazil pic.twitter.com/DzFdmO2T7G
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 12, 2025
The New York Post reports that some locals are not happy about this:
The state government has repeatedly insisted the highway is “sustainable” — but that rings hollow to locals and conservationists who are condemning the project.
“Everything was destroyed,” said Claudio Verequete, who lives about a quarter-mile from the roadway in progress and used to make a living harvesting açaí berries from trees near his land which are no longer standing.
“Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family,” he told the outlet, noting he has not received any compensation from the government and is keeping his finances afloat by dipping into savings.
Even worse, Verequete said he’s afraid now that the once-unspoiled rainforest has been marred, future incursions further into the land could be imminent.
“Our fear is that one day someone will come here and say: ‘Here’s some money. We need this area to build a gas station, or to build a warehouse.’ And then we’ll have to leave.”
The American left would probably protest this but they’re too busy burning down Tesla dealerships at the moment.
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Oh the irony it’s the climate change people “we had to kill the trees to save them “ moment.
I mentioned in another thread what I’ll again mention here: Check out the movie “Medicine Man” starring Sean Connery. With the highway being built through the rain forest, you’ll see the connection.
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Great intro theme from the late Jerry Goldsmith. Of all places considering how fragile the ecology is. (This time no ants left to look for,)
This could be a chapter in Michael Crichton’s (Sp?) “State of Fear”.
Great book. Loved it. “Could have been written by Ann Coulter,” said some wacko lib.
This is irony within irony. A great paradox. The high priests of the “Church of Climate Change”, seek the destruction of “Holy Ground”, because it is convenient for their purposes. And they are go0d.
Ordinary people seek the same improvements, because it improves the quality of their lives. And they are evil.
And at the end of the day, “Climate Change” is nothing but a hoax and a fraud.
Don’t forget that the High Priests of the Climate Cult will allow you to receive an indulgence…..but only if you pay for it via financial donation, by performative acts or ritual self flagellation to atone.
“including top world leaders“
World leaders and entourage bouncing down sweaty, muddy, rustic roads in EV 4×4’s? lol.
At least the new road can be used to service the adjacent high tension power lines.
“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy
very, very much– even more than she loved herself.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
Hang on. The last summit was a disaster- all the Euro nations that had made big reparations promises suddenly couldn’t find their wallets.
What? Everyone just pretended that didn’t happen?
I love that book. : )
Why do they even need a road?
It’s not like people are going to be driving there.
They should be building a private jet airport at the site itself.
You misunderstand. The road is not for all the elites attending the free Amazon Retreat, I mean climate summit. This is for all the servants that will be taking care of them during the event.
If they were serious about their message, they could have much more effectively held the summit in Sao Paulo or Rio, which wouldn’t have required any new infrastructure.
Examples of leftists’/Dhimmi-crats’ environmental hypocrisy are legion. I recall a similarly hypocritical circumstance in either Germany or the U.K, in which thousands of acres of old-growth forest were cut down, to make way for a solar farm.
The vile leftists and Dhimmi-crats are too stupid, naturally, to perceive their blatant and brazen hypocrisy when it comes to their destructive actions in alleged service of “saving the environment/planet.”
Straight up gaslighting. The real aim is themselves running a Communist tyranny with their totalitarian-minded buddies, lording it over the serfs. Environment a preposterous excuse. Green on the outside, red on the inside. Marx rules!
Who’d be idiotic enough to fall for such a transparent ruse?
Well, it’s not just tyranny on display — the “green” agenda is also a massive and unprecedented hustle/graft/theft of the public fisc, worldwide, transferred to leftists’/Dhimmi-crats’ cronies, friends, courtiers and donors.
We ought to wait for them all to arrive and gather and then nuke them. It’s the only way to be sure.
Progressives won’t be happy until they turn the earth into a hellscape. And then they still won’t be happy. Lol
Liberalism is a mental illness.
So…
The road. By percentage… how much?
“But it is the rain forest, property of the peoples of the earth”
Look, it’s another forest. And it ain’t ours.
You build a road you cut down trees. That’s it end of story. Now that means it is easier to log areas connected by the new road but it means you can do anything, build a hospital, power plant, water treatment, whatever. If you quit using the road in that climate you’ll need lidar to find it in a relatively short time.
The hypocrisy is fun to point out but unless you consider humans invasive species then a highway is just as natural as a beaver dam.
I think you nailed the real reason for the road.
I also think it interesting that they stopped having these global warming summits in the winter in places likely to get blizzards. I guess they didn’t like appearing to be total idiots!
Power lines require maintenance. Having an improved road goes a long way to that end. That climate produces a jungle in a season or two. Glad to see some improvements coming to areas that have not been well served in modernity.
“Climate” is a mental illness that only seems affect dullards who were otherwise already mentally defective.
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