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The United Nations (UN) is facing backlash after reports confirmed that around 100,000 trees were cut down in the Amazon rainforest to build new roads and infrastructure for its upcoming COP30 “climate change” summit.

The conference is set to take place in the Brazilian city of Belém in November.

It will bring an estimated 70,000 delegates and activists to the region to discuss “saving the planet” and “protecting biodiversity.”

To accommodate the massive influx of attendees, construction crews have carved an eight-mile, four-lane highway, Avenida Liberdade, directly through a dense section of the Amazon rainforest.

The development has destroyed one of the world’s most critical ecosystems in the name of “climate diplomacy.”

Environmental observers estimate that roughly 100,000 mature trees were logged to complete the project, causing widespread disruption to local wildlife habitats.

“Protecting the Planet” by Destroying It

The revelation has fueled accusations of hypocrisy against the United Nations and its climate conference organizers, who have repeatedly urged developing countries to stop deforestation and cut “carbon emissions.”

Critics argue the very act of bulldozing part of the Amazon, considered a key carbon sink, undermines the UN’s own message.

The project’s construction equipment and the loss of vegetation that once absorbed CO2 are expected to generate significant “carbon emissions,” something which the UN claims is one of the key drivers in “global warming.”

Adding to the irony, COP30 is being billed as a milestone summit for “global climate justice” and “forest preservation.”

Data Contradicts the Narrative

While world leaders prepare to gather in Belém to warn of a supposed “climate emergency,” recent research published in Nature Plants paints a different picture of the Amazon’s health.

The study found that increased levels of atmospheric CO2 have caused the Amazon’s trees to grow larger and stronger, with mature trees expanding by more than 6% per decade over the last 30 years.

Scientists analyzing 188 forest plots across the Amazon concluded that the region’s biomass is thriving, not collapsing.

They described the growth as “more than alleviating” any recent negative climate effects.

This finding directly contradicts decades of UN-backed climate models predicting forest collapse.

UN Climate Elite’s Carbon Footprint

The UN’s annual climate conferences have long faced criticism for their massive carbon footprints.

COP29 in Azerbaijan drew similar scrutiny for producing tens of thousands of tons of CO2 from air travel alone, with many attendees arriving in private jets.

COP30 is expected to surpass those emissions, as tens of thousands of globalist politicians, bureaucrats, and activists fly into the Amazon for a week of speeches on reducing “carbon emissions.”

Observers have noted that the UN’s climate gatherings have evolved into sprawling political events, often hosted in luxury accommodations built at environmental expense.

“Do as We Say, Not as We Do”

The destruction of 100,000 Amazon trees for a climate conference has become a defining symbol of what critics call the “do as we say, not as we do” hypocrisy of the global climate establishment.

Even as the UN demands that nations sacrifice energy independence and economic growth in the name of “carbon neutrality,” its own projects continue to generate pollution and destroy the very ecosystems it claims to protect.

For many around the world, COP30 now stands not as a monument to environmental protection, but as a powerful illustration of the global elite’s double standard on “climate change.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.



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I wish I could say I’m shocked.

I hate to use this over-used expression, but you just can't make this stuff up.

First thing people need to realize is that the vast majority of these climate delegates and activists have no concern or regard for the existing natural resources nor do they most likely believe in climate change themselves. It's about control and harming the U.S. economy by hamstringing our productive use of our own abundant natural resources. While other developed countries continue to do as they may.

High on my wish list is for Trump to severely neuter the UN or at least kick it out of our country. They are despicable grifters and scammers.

70,000 Delegates and 100,000 trees. They could of put those trees to good use. Assholes. Pure and simple.

A large percentage of the climate hypocrites will fly there on a private jet instead of commercial jet (i.e. more carbon released per person). Like others have said, the haves have a vested interest in controlling how the have nots live as they set up their communist utopia. Their version of ecological utopia will of course fail, but they DGAF as long as they are part of the haves.

As far as the trees, it really depends on whether they were in a managed or unmanaged forest as well as what they'll replant with.

Unmanaged forest (i.e. think California) has become a carbon source instead of carbon sink as it causes devastating wild fires that destroy trees and releases sequestered carbon.

A managed forest would have low impact prescribed fires that burn the understory every x years and since it's a controlled fire 95+% of the trees would live, keep the carbon sequestered, and continue to sequester more carbon.

if they replant in pasture and maintain it then it's a more reliable carbon sink than unmanaged forest.

if they replant in silvopasture (i.e. pasture with sparse amount of trees) and rotationally graze (i.e. graze a day or so then let it rest 30+ days) with sheep or cattle then then it's an even more reliable carbon sink.

if they don't replant, and it just becomes more concrete, asphalt, etc. then they're most certainly hypocrites.

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“Do as We Say, Not as We Do”

The money quote from every commie, dictator and despot since time began.

It looks like there are existing roads north and out of the rainforest that parallel this "Avenida Liberdade". Why not use that?

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
It looks like there are existing roads north and out of the rainforest that parallel this "Avenida Liberdade". Why not use that?

Because that is the road that the local peasants use. Their road will be private and paved for comfort. Of course, a quality road will be needed to support the bulletproof Land Rovers, Range Rovers, Tahoes, Mercedes and BMW vehicles.

A crowd of 70k people?
Put 'em into one of the "futbol" stadiums. There's plenty of access and infrastructure there already, already built for a crowd that size.

I don't care about the trees...they'll grow back. The hypocrisy, however....

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Originally posted by vthoky:
A crowd of 70k people?
Put 'em into one of the "futbol" stadiums. There's plenty of access and infrastructure there already, already built for a crowd that size.

But that makes too much sense!

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
First thing people need to realize is that the vast majority of these climate delegates and activists have no concern or regard for the existing natural resources nor do they most likely believe in climate change themselves. It's about control and harming the U.S. economy by hamstringing our productive use of our own abundant natural resources. While other developed countries continue to do as they may.

High on my wish list is for Trump to severely neuter the UN or at least kick it out of our country. They are despicable grifters and scammers.

Step #1: U.S.A. out of the U.N.
Step #2: U.N. out of the U.S.A.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I don't care about the trees...they'll grow back. The hypocrisy, however....

Yep, right there with you.

I've been to Belem. It's a big city built right on the river with almost endless bug and disease infested forests all around it. Clearing back some of the growth around the edge of the city and opening it up for development will be probably be beneficial for public health and the local economy.

But the fact that they're doing it for those self-righteous pricks who would fight tooth and nail to stop such a thing from happening anywhere else in the world (including places of far las ecological significance) sticks in my craw.

After spending 15 years in Africa, working on every UN mission, there are not enough words to state how much I hate them.

Another fine example of why we should cut off the UN from all US funding and boot them out of NYC!

Good, now we can get going on the Ambler road project in Alaska.

https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm....adEIS_Fact_Sheet.pdf

US should kick the UN out of NYC. Suggest a new location like Albania or some island in the Pacific. US funding, if any, should be in the range of what is contributed by Congo or Nepal.

Obviously there is no climate crisis.