the_crotch@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAmazon forest felled to build road for climate summitwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down16
arrow-up1277arrow-down1external-linkAmazon forest felled to build road for climate summitwww.bbc.comthe_crotch@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-21 day 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-up4·19 hours 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-up1·edit-215 hours 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.