Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
Kind of confirms what I always thought about all the politicians that go there. They dont give af.
Claudio Verequete lives about 200m from where the road will be. He used to make an income from harvesting açaí berries from trees that once occupied the space.
"Everything was destroyed," he says, gesturing at the clearing.
"Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family."
He says he has received no compensation from the state government and is currently relying on savings.
In case it's unclear that these people claiming to care about the climate are genuinely as bad as any cartoon villain out of Fern Gully.
Edit: I wonder if we can get Tim Curry to record a public scolding of them. That would be a fitting publicity stunt to draw attention to this.
I wonder if we can get Tim Curry to record a public scolding of them. That would be a fitting publicity stunt to draw attention to this.
Unfortunately he's dead so probably not
I was talking about legendary voice actor, Tim Curry, not the Texas Attorney
Joking aside, I guess there's a hoax?
Many people think so. But no, he’s not.
Is this like a meme or something because he's definitely not
How much evidence do people need that our world leaders simply don't care? Environmental scientists have been telling us that it's too late for years. Climate summits are pure theatre.
Environmental scientists have been telling us that it’s too late for years.
Why are you lying? Environmental scientists have been telling us exactly the opposite of that: that it's incredibly important to not think it's "too late" and give up because, no matter how bad it's already gotten due to our previous failure to act, it will still get continuously worse as long as we continue to fail.
There is no bottom; only continual escalation of suffering until we finally get our shit together. The sooner we do it, the less we suffer.
I would kindly ask you not to accuse me of lying - perhaps I was too brief in explaining my position and could have better phrased it.
We have very clear thresholds in the IPCC for climate disaster mitigation. We are NOT on track to reduce emissions below those thresholds by 2030, the generally agreed upon date that such reductions are necessary by. By most accounts, we won't hit those targets, particularly when considering who is currently the president of one of the world's biggest contributors and potential leaders in said reductions.
Put differently, climate science has been telling us for years that it will soon be too late, and we - in the opinion of many, including the EU's Copernicus - have already surpassed the crucial 1.5c mark.
You're right about our leaders but partially wrong about it being too late. There will be massive destruction and horrible outcomes but damage can still be decreased. With massive effort fewer dead, fewer impovrished, easier to reverse. This is true at each point.
Horrifyingly though our leaders will do nothing while pretending when it gets bad there was nothing they could have done at this point. That it's always been futile.
You may think me saying humanity can still do good work to lower damage is optimism but as a pessimist I understand that nothing will likely be done. Especially when most think it's already too late to do anything.
I agree with you. I don't mean "too late" as in past the point of action potentially having a positive impact, I mean "too late" in the sense that I am not optimistic that such action will take place in time to significantly mitigate the outcomes mentioned.
I'm also have a bit of a shit day - I'm usually a hair more optimistic on these things.
They don't have to do anything. they've convinced the masses that it's too late and we can't do anything, now all they have to do is keep the theater going so it seems like they're still trying.
The leaders with any power are mostly from well developed 1st world nations where the majority of people will be fine. The climate fuckup will manifest in the form of mass migration from the poor nations that will bear the majority of the disaster to nations that can afford to continue business as normal. Nobody cares and those that do don't have the power to make any meaningful change. The world will burn and nothing will change. It's a train crash in slow motion and their is nothing any of us can do to stop it.
All for something that could have been a zoom meeting.
Can Zoom handle 50,000 participants?
It feels like remote online conferencing should be mandatory for anyone claiming - during the meeting - to give a shit about the climate.
This feels like a bare minimum guideline.
Are we gonna pretend this is being hosted in the middle of virgin rainforest and not in a large city? And that the summit is the only reason someone would make a road?
Terrible headline that only serves to further anti-climate agenda
You're right, they should have built the road through the city by demolishing black neighborhoods like they do the the good ol US of A.
The main cause of deforestation isn't urban development. It's cattle, animal feed and mining.
The article goes into more detail? If people aren't willing to read past the headline that's their own fault. We can't babysit grown adults.
Sure, let's excuse journalistic malpractice that deliberately creates outrage, what could possibly go wrong