Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025) (bbc.com)

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exe34 39m ago ↗

Couldn't they just build a runway there for the private jets?

ncr100 25m ago ↗

/s or a landing pad for Bezos' and Musk's reusable rocket booster transporters to unload Robo-Billionaire husks?

NorthSouthNorth 31m ago ↗

Title reads as if they just cut down the entire thing lol. (The original title too).

ChrisArchitect 29m ago ↗

(2025)

Why posting this today OP?

Just over a week ago:

Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8rzg6zl00o

john_strinlai 14m ago ↗

>Why posting this today OP?

they have an agenda, if you look at their submission history

sva_ 25m ago ↗

It makes for a good headline, but

> the cleared land which stretches more than 13km (8 miles)

musha68k 20m ago ↗

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thenthenthen 17m ago ↗

Reminds me of some Red Bull art thing in berlin where they build some temporary structure from shipping containers, and cut down a big three in the middle. 1. They could have build around it 2. They held seed bomb workshops at the place….

phendrenad2 14m ago ↗

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paxy 14m ago ↗

I hate these low effort "gotcha!!" articles.

They built a 13 km highway connecting an underserved city. It isn't going to be removed after the summit.

Is Brazil not allowed to have infrastructure because a large part of their country is rainforest?