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.

  • @LesserAbeEnglish
    32•11 hours ago

    I’ve been reading “The Power Broker” about Bob Moses, who built an insane amount of expressways in New York. This reminds me of multiple instances in the book where he planned the route in a way that didn’t seem to make sense until you learned that a powerful or wealthy person stood to gain from doing it that way.

    • @DuamerthraxEnglish
      7•6 hours ago

      until you learned that a powerful or wealthy person stood to gain from doing it that way.

      He was also an incredibly petty and racist person. No one stood to gain from the only city park to have an animal motif being the one in Harlem having an monkey motif.

      Part One: The Man Who Ruined New York | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

    • Clay_pidginEnglish
      11•10 hours ago

      Robert Moses is such a fascinating character.

      Have you listened along with the 99pi Breakdown of the Power Broker? They just finished, and they had lots of guests including Robert Caro!, Pete Butigeg, and AOC.

      https://99percentinvisible.org/club/

      • ivanafterall ☑️English
        5•9 hours ago

        Haven’t listened to that podcast in ages. Thanks for the heads-up, listening while I slave for the man.