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Report: Amazon Rainforest Cleared for COP30 Climate Summit Highway

  • #Climate change
  • #Forests
  • #Ethics
  • #Brazil
  • #Politics
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MAR 13
Above: Generic photo of the Amazon rainforest taken in December 2008 in Amazonas State, Brazil. Image copyright: Wikimedia Commons
story last updated MAR 15

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

While concerns over Amazon tree felling are valid, Brazil’s highway for COP30, with eco-friendly features like wildlife crossings and solar lighting, aims to balance progress and preservation. Furthermore, the highway will provide alternative transportation to riverboats amid the region's current drought. Its construction is also essential to holding COP30 in the heart of the climate crisis, which will let skeptics witness the Amazon's disressing reality firsthand.

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Establishment-critical narrative

This highway project exposes a stark hypocrisy in global climate efforts, with both left- and right-leaning critics pointing out that paving the Amazon for COP30 contradicts its eco-mission. Despite conservationists' warnings of deforestation, elites are pushing forward, jetting in to preach sustainability while slashing sacred trees. This is a glaring sign that climate leaders tout green ideals but bulldoze nature for convenience, proving their rhetoric hollow.

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