the_crotch@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoAmazon forest felled to build road for climate summitwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1287arrow-down16
arrow-up1281arrow-down1external-linkAmazon forest felled to build road for climate summitwww.bbc.comthe_crotch@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-23 months agoYou’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.
minus-square9bananas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoor, you know, host it somewhere with existing fucking infrastructure??? it’s not like brazil doesn’t have any conference centres anywhere else…
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agoSee, this is exactly why the headline is misleading bullshit. It makes people think the only reason the road is being built is the conference. It’s a state capital, that is a port city, connected to an industrial hub.
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.
or, you know, host it somewhere with existing fucking infrastructure???
it’s not like brazil doesn’t have any conference centres anywhere else…
See, this is exactly why the headline is misleading bullshit. It makes people think the only reason the road is being built is the conference.
It’s a state capital, that is a port city, connected to an industrial hub.