Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
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The word you're looking for is "hypocrisy".
That too
Sure, it's primarily about carnism. Were talking about destroying the planet to torture/murder animals and to grow feed to torture/murder animals.
But it's also about cars. They're not building trains. It's all disposable car cult.
my favorite graffiti i've seen i think was "the wrong amazon is burning"
Peak global capitalism.
The jokes write themselves.
Because hosting it in a place with all the necessary infrastructure already in place would have made too much sense. Like, oh I don't know, that one Brazilian city that recently hosted the World Cup and then the Olympics, both with many orders of magnitude more people attending than a climate conference. No gotta spend a fortune building brand new shit for a once in decades thing.
How much you want to bet this is just an excuse to funnel public money into a private construction firm?
It honestly sometimes starts to feel like they're gloating.