In a shocking display of hypocrisy, globalists have chopped down tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest to make way for the United Nations’ coming “climate change” summit in Brazil.
Millions of protected trees have been felled to build a four-lane superhighway leading to the UN’s COP30 event in the Brazilian city of Belém.
It comes as the Brazilian government prepares for globalists to be jetted in from around the world for the conference in November.
Drone footage from above the site has highlighted the devastation to the forest.
The footage has revealed thick dirt lanes cutting through the lush greenery.
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The road will be used to ease traffic in and out of the city of Belem.
The event is expected to host a staggering 50,000 people, including world leaders, corporate heads, and unelected bureaucrats, many of whom will fly into Brazil via private jets and helicopters.
Logs have already been spotted piled high on the sides of the cleared land, and diggers have appeared, paving over the wetland in the world’s richest biological reservoir.
The state government of Pará had previously shelved plans for the highway, known as Avenida Liberdade, due to environmental concerns.
However, the project was revived by Brazil’s socialist government, along with other infrastructure plans, ahead of COP30.
Adler Silveira, the state government’s infrastructure secretary, described the highway as an “important mobility intervention” and a “sustainable highway.”
However, despite Silveira’s claims, there’s no evidence that the road will be in any way “sustainable.”
“We can have a legacy for the population and, more importantly, serve people for COP30 in the best possible way,” he said.
Meanwhile, several locals and conservationists have blasted the decision, highlighting the substantial environmental impact.
Brazil’s socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has defended the project.
He claims the summit will be “a COP in the Amazon, not a COP about the Amazon.”
Lula said the conference would highlight the needs of the Amazon and show the world what the federal government has done to protect it.
However, 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.
Speaking to the BBC, Claudio Verequete, a local who lives around 200m from the highway, said the new road has “destroyed” everything.
“Our harvest has already been cut down,” he told the outlet.
“We no longer have that income to support our family.”
Verequete explained that he has received no compensation from the state government and is worried that the road’s construction will lead to more deforestation.
But there are also fears that the local community will not be connected to the major road due to the walls on either side.
“For us who live on the side of the highway, there will be no benefits,” he added.
“There will be benefits for the trucks that will pass through.
“If someone gets sick and needs to go to the centre of Belém, we won’t be able to use it.”
The construction comes amid wider environmental challenges in the Amazon.
In August 2024, devastating fires swept across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland, and even Sao Paulo.
Many of the fires were started deliberately to clear land for deforestation and pasture management.
Climate summits have come under increasing scrutiny for their environmental impact.
Particularly, the use of private jets by world leaders and corporate executives has led to allegations of “blatant hypocrisy.”
At COP28 in Dubai, a staggering 291 private flights were linked to the event, generating an estimated 3,800 tonnes of CO2.
The figure is the equivalent to the annual emissions of more than 500 people.
Alethea Warrington, head of energy, aviation, and heat at climate action charity Possible, didn’t hold back in her criticism.
“Travelling by private jet is a horrendous waste of the world’s scarce remaining carbon budget,” she told The Times.
“Each journey produces more emissions in a few hours than the average person emits in an entire year.”
Similar scenes unfolded at COP27 in Egypt, where 36 private jets landed in Sharm el-Sheikh, and another 64 flew into Cairo.
At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the trend worsened.
A shocking 65 private jets landed in the week leading up to the summit – nearly double the number seen at COP28.
Of those, 45 flights arrived in just two days as the conference got underway.
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