So here’s the latest gem from the “we-care-about-Mother-Earth” folks: parts of the Amazon rainforest, the planet’s very own green lung, got decimated for a new four-lane highway. Why? According to a report from Just the News [1], it was to shuttle SUV-and-jet- loving elites into a global climate summit that began on Monday in Brazil.
That’s tens of thousands of acres of “protected” trees!
Let’s call it what it is: A page straight out of the “Please trust us because we’re saving the planet” handbook – hand-in-hand with chainsaws and concrete. Yes, they cleared eight miles [2] of pristine rainforest so they could fly in, confer about emissions, and fly out.
What’s this magical spin? They say the highway is “sustainable.” It will have solar- powered lighting, bike lanes, and wildlife crossings. Big whoop.
So next time these “planet protectors” hop onstage to lecture the rest of us about carbon footprints, remember this: they bulldozed the rainforest to pave their path to virtue. Solar lights and bike lanes don’t cancel out chainsaws and hypocrisy. If saving the Earth means destroying it first, maybe it’s time they turned off the jet engines and the moral megaphones.