The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

It’s kind of worse when you see it on the map, because it appears to be running parallel to an existing developed area, like they built a bypass through the rainforest for the climate summit, not a road for someplace previously unconnected.

  • @[email protected]English
    38•5 hours ago

    The Dutch historian and writer Rutger Bregman once addressed this in Davos.

    ‘There are 1500 private jets here to hear David Attenborough talk about how we’re wrecking the climate… It’s like a firefighters conference were no one is allowed to mention water.’

    It’s a brilliant piece and it’s directly adding the fact that the ultra rich just don’t pay their taxes. It went viral, yet should be mandatory viewing for every citizen of the world.

    Bregman has since not been invited back to Davos…

    https://youtu.be/r5LtFnmPruU

    • @DuamerthraxEnglish
      3•6 hours ago

      Ordinary Things also over Davos.

      Fun fact, when it premiered, it got removed by youtube about 5 minutes after it went up the first time. Looks like it was a weird glitch, because it stayed up the second time with no real editing being done.