Amazon Forest Felled To Build Road For Climate Summit (bbc.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/16/0136229/amazon-forest-felled-to-build-road-for-climate-summit
- Source link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people at the conference this 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.
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> Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area... The road leaves two disconnected areas of protected forest. Scientists are concerned it will fragment the ecosystem and disrupt the movement of wildlife...
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> The state government of Pará had touted the idea of this highway, known as Avenida Liberdade, as early as 2012, but it had repeatedly been shelved because of environmental concerns. Now a host of infrastructure projects have been resurrected or approved to prepare the city for the COP summit.
But on the bright side, Adler Silveira, the state government's infrastructure secretary, said the highway would have wildlife crossings for animals to pass over, as well as climate-friendly bike lanes and solar-powered lighting...
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
no (Score:2, Redundant)
Not only is this old news, it has also already been debunked a few times. This road was already planned a long time ago, way before the summit was even appointed. So yes, the news is that they felled a forest to build a road, but dragging the climate summit into this is just a trumpian naarrative
Re: (Score:2)
When the people building this highway make statements like this, the debunkings you prefer to believe aren't very credible.
> 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".
Also, love how he states the quiet part out loud and prioritizes the COP30 grandees over Brazil's citizens.
I'm sure the logging companies will greatly appreciate their new highway after all the COP30 folk jet off to their next newly built city. Should speed up the removal of the rest that vegetation by years.
Err no (Score:4, Informative)
The highway was approved in 2020 and started construction before Brazil was announced as the COP30 leader. Look there's so much shit going on in the world already without spreading environmental fake news. Resorting to the claim that Brazil can plan, approve, prep, and build a highway in under 2 years is not just hysterical, it's giving them credit where they deserve none.
No one builds a 4 lane highway just for an event that attracts 200 people. Spreading claims like this diminishes the impact the climate movement has.
But sure, let's get outrated over 0.52 square km loss of rainforest to build a road (13km x 40m wide), in a country where 6,288 square km of rainforest was actually felled last year. You're playing right into the government's hand ignoring the massive actual problems while raging over a road.
Fake News (Score:2)
#BBC is the nations least trusted broadcaster and propagandist.
This is a lie , it was not built for COP it was built for mining vehicles.
Not great either but once again the BBC shows its true racism and untrustworthiness.
Isn’t it ironic .. (Score:1)
As Alanis Morissette would have put it: Isn’t it ironic that the road to a climate solution runs straight through a protected rainforest?
it's a little bit ironic (Score:2)
WTF