Brazil is building a brand new, four-lane, eight-mile-long bridge that will make travel to the little town of Belem easier. Called” Avenida Liberdade” by the state government, it’s being touted as a” sustainable mobility project, incorporating wildlife crossings, solar lighting, and bike lanes”, according to Carbon Pulse.
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The street required clearing tens of thousands of acres of Amazon forest. But it will be for it. It’s being built to speed up travel to Belem for the 50, 000 government officials, NGO big shots, activists, protesters, celebrities, and hangers-on who will attend the 30th annual Conference of the Parties ( COP).
Tens of thousands of acres of protected forest cut down in the Amazon for a **CLIMATE SUMMIT** bridge
— End Wokeness ( @End Wokeness ) March 12, 2025
Yet climate campaigners are upset about the street. The files are piled deep on either side of the road, which tore up secured lakes. ” Anything was destroyed”, said Claudio Verequete, who made a living from harvesting açaà fruit from branches where the path is now.
” Our produce has already been cut down. We no longer have that money to help our community”.
Brazilian President Lula de Sliva brags that the meeting may be” a COP in the Amazon, not a COP about the Amazon”.
Professor Silvia Sardinha fails to see any benefits. Sardinha rehabilitates creatures injured by people in cars and says,” From the moment of forest, there is a lost”.
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” We are going to drop an area to relieve these wildlife back into the wild, the natural surroundings of these varieties”, she said.
I’m all for advancement, and if a tortoise darter or a unique mating bird is inconvenienced, that has to be weighed against what is gained. I think, in this case, the greens have a place. Cutting down an Amazon forests for a meeting that’s trying to save the Amazon forest is just plain beans.
Adler Silveira, the state government’s system minister, listed this highway as one of 30 projects happening in the city to “prepare” and “modernise” it, but” we can have a legacy for the population and, more importantly, offer people for COP30 in the best possible way”.
Speaking to the BBC, he said it was a” green bridge” and an “important freedom action”.
He added it would have wildlife bridges for animals to go over, cycle lanes and solar lights. New resorts are also being built and the interface is being redeveloped so journey ships can port it to provide extra visitors.
Brazil’s federal government is investing more than$ 81m ( £62m ) to expand the airport capacity from” seven to 14 million passengers”. A fresh 500, 000 sq-m capital area, Parque da Cidade, is under construction. It will include natural spaces, eateries, a sports advanced and other facilities for the people to use later.
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I am sick to death of people who try to tell the rest of us how to sit, who turn about and do exactly what they wag their hands at us to stop doing.  ,
No one ever throws purple paint on them. No one ever shouts them along. The fripping, nauseating hypocrisy of the whole green action needs to be called out first and often.
 ,” Scrutiny is growing over whether flying dozens of them across the globe, and the equipment required to number them, is undermining the trigger”, writes the BBC.
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