You really can’t make this stuff up. The world’s top climate activists, politicians, and corporate elites are set to descend on the Amazon for the next big UN climate summit, and in order to accommodate their private jets, motorcades, and five-star accommodations, Brazil is bulldozing a massive highway through the rainforest. That’s right—thousands of acres of protected land are being cleared in the name of saving the planet.
The new four-lane highway, dubbed Avenida Liberdade (because, of course, nothing screams “liberation” like paving over pristine rainforest), was previously shelved over—you guessed it—environmental concerns. But now, with COP30 bringing in 50,000 attendees, suddenly those concerns don’t seem to matter anymore. The Brazilian government insists this is a “sustainable” project, because apparently, slapping on a few bike lanes and solar-powered streetlights magically offsets the destruction of critical ecosystems.
Local residents aren’t buying it. Claudio Verequete, who relied on the açaí trees that once stood where the road now cuts through, told the BBC that his family’s livelihood has already been wiped out. Conservationists warn that, beyond the immediate deforestation, this road will become a gateway for even more illegal logging and land speculation. But hey, as long as the UN delegates don’t have to deal with traffic, it’s all worth it, right?
“Everything was destroyed,” Verequete told the BBC. “Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family.”
Here’s today’s latest climate change scam’s hypocrisy.
Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to ease travel for attendees.
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— David Joe May (@TheGrayRider) March 12, 2025
It’s almost comical how quickly environmental concerns get tossed aside when they inconvenience the global climate elite. These are the same people who insist that you need to eat bugs instead of beef, you need to ditch your gas stove, and you need to shell out more money for carbon taxes—yet they have zero hesitation when it comes to clearing rainforest so they can host their luxury conference in comfort. At previous summits, they’ve discussed policies like taxing meat products and even naming extreme heat events (because, of course, giving a summer heat wave a scary name will definitely stop climate change).
Let’s not forget that COP29 in 2024 was so inclusive that they even invited Taliban officials to discuss Afghanistan’s climate strategy. Because if there’s one thing the Taliban is known for, it’s their commitment to progressive environmental policies. Meanwhile, at COP28, they took time out of their busy schedule of finger-wagging at Western nations to discuss sustainable yachting—because nothing says “climate justice” like billionaires figuring out how to make their floating palaces slightly less bad for the environment.
JUST IN: Tens of thousands of acres in the Amazon rainforest have been cut down to build a road for the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
Huge swaths of land are getting cleared out to “ease traffic to the city” of Belem for a new highway.
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 12, 2025
This latest hypocrisy is just the cherry on top. The same activists who have spent years calling the Amazon the “lungs of the Earth” are now conveniently quiet as their own movement tears through it. According to NOAA, the Amazon now emits more carbon dioxide than it absorbs due to rampant deforestation, but don’t expect any of the COP30 attendees to cancel their trips over it. They’ll still fly in on fuel-guzzling private jets, shuttle around in motorcades, and enjoy their air-conditioned luxury accommodations—all while lecturing the rest of us about our carbon footprints.
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva reassured everyone that this summit is in the Amazon, not about the Amazon. In other words: don’t expect the rainforest to be the priority here. The real focus will be the same as always—more regulations, more taxes, and more ways to make life harder for ordinary people, all while the elite class continues living exactly how they please. COP30 kicks off in November, and if history is any indicator, the biggest carbon emissions won’t come from industry or agriculture—they’ll come from the sheer volume of hypocrisy.
