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-up1279arrow-down16
arrow-up1273arrow-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-down3·edit-21 day agoAre we gonna pretend this is being hosted in the middle of virgin rainforest and not in a large city? And that the summit is the only reason someone would make a road? Terrible headline that only serves to further anti-climate agenda
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-up3·13 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-210 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.
minus-squareObinice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoThe article goes into more detail? If people aren’t willing to read past the headline that’s their own fault. We can’t babysit grown adults.
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 day agoSure, let’s excuse journalistic malpractice that deliberately creates outrage, what could possibly go wrong
Are we gonna pretend this is being hosted in the middle of virgin rainforest and not in a large city? And that the summit is the only reason someone would make a road?
Terrible headline that only serves to further anti-climate agenda
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.
The article goes into more detail? If people aren’t willing to read past the headline that’s their own fault. We can’t babysit grown adults.
Sure, let’s excuse journalistic malpractice that deliberately creates outrage, what could possibly go wrong