Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025)(www.bbc.com)
46 pointsby bilsbie6 hours ago13 comments
  • gchamonlive5 hours ago
    Yes there were many contradictions in the COP summit, but this is exactly what it's for so the world can understand the actual challenges other countries go through which takes the backseat when these meetings are held in rich countries.
  • NorthSouthNorth5 hours ago
    Title reads as if they just cut down the entire thing lol. (The original title too).
  • thenthenthen5 hours ago
    Reminds me of some Red Bull art thing in berlin where they build some temporary structure from shipping containers, and cut down a big three in the middle. 1. They could have build around it 2. They held seed bomb workshops at the place….
  • sva_5 hours ago
    It makes for a good headline, but

    > the cleared land which stretches more than 13km (8 miles)

    • wafta5 hours ago
      I mean, I think it's a bad look for a "climate summit" to choose a location that results in 0.8 miles of rainforest being cut down.

      But that said, the article also claims "tens of thousands of acres" cut down. 10,000 acres is 15 sq-miles. That's a lot more than an 8 mile freeway, unless I did some math wrong (possible).

      • sva_4 hours ago
        No, it says it cut through an area of "tens of thousands of acres"
  • ChrisArchitect5 hours ago
    (2025)

    Why posting this today OP?

    Just over a week ago:

    Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8rzg6zl00o (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244092)

    • john_strinlai5 hours ago
      >Why posting this today OP?

      they have an agenda, if you look at their submission history

      bangers such as "why climate change is not an existential crisis" and "much climate hysteria just aimless guilt in search of futile acts of atonement"

      people should lose their submission privileges after having dozens on dozens of flagged submissions, history of editorializing of titles, etc. some of their other non-climate submissions are really quite awful. just a bunch of rage bait.

      • bigyabaian hour ago
        Sadly, I concur. Their submission history is reminiscent of other motivated accounts that dilute the website's intellectual curiosity with zero-sum editorials. It's certainly deliberate, and their comment history seems to defend the submissions rather than conceding their obvious low quality.

        Perhaps these sorts of accounts could be valuable if their submissions were auto-[dead] and needed a vouch to be seen. As-is, it's grinding down /new with a pattern of low-quality commentary and non-curious, partisan ragebait.

  • musha68k5 hours ago
    Whatever happened to virtual attendance?
  • exe345 hours ago
    Couldn't they just build a runway there for the private jets?
    • ncr1005 hours ago
      /s or a landing pad for Bezos' and Musk's reusable rocket booster transporters to unload Robo-Billionaire husks?
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  • paxy5 hours ago
    I hate these low effort "gotcha!!" articles, no doubt written to discredit climate activism movements.

    They built a 13 km highway connecting an underserved city. It isn't going to be removed after the summit.

    Is Brazil not allowed to have infrastructure because a large part of their country is rainforest?

    And why is a random article from 2025 being upvoted here?

    • gchamonlive5 hours ago
      It's specially interesting that the article goes through lengths to criticize this legal deforestation while not mentioning the progress in fighting illegal deforestation. Seems like the current admin doesn't do much when in fact it is successfully reverting the damages done in the previous admin by Bolsonaro:

      The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01368-x)

      Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8rzg6zl00o)

  • phendrenad25 hours ago
    That's too bad, I would have liked to visit it one day. I hear Mt Everest will be demolished next to make room for a bodega.
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  • wunderlust5 hours ago
    HN nerds will justify anything if they can write words that appear logically sound.