On Wednesday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about preparations for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. You know, one of those climate summits where everyone flies in on their private jet while telling all the rest of us that we need to shrink our carbon footprint. Well, their large carbon footprint is not the only hypocrisy involved.

The article reports:

Why let protecting the Amazon rainforest get in the way of “environmental” activism?

In the lead-up to the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, a new four-lane highway is cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest.

The event, to be held in November, is expected to host more than 50,000, including world leaders and high-profile activists who will surely fly on private jets and traverse a road that has been scarred into the pristine landscape.

The state government touts the highway’s “sustainable” credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.

Any time you cut a road through a forest there is going to be environmental impact–animals have to find new homes, the temperature of the area is impacted, the amount of carbon dioxide recycled by the trees is altered, and it is possible that streams or ponds may be impacted.

The article concludes:

A local resident, Claudio Verequete, told BBC, said he used to earn his living from harvesting berries from the tress that used to be there.

“Everything was destroyed,” he said. “Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family.”

Adler Silveira, the state government’s infrastructure secretary, listed this highway as one of 30 projects happening in the city to “prepare” and “modernise” it.

Silveira added it would provice “a legacy for the population and, more importantly, serve people for COP30 in the best possible way.”

The article includes the following post on X:

They really could hold their climate conference somewhere else.