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points by paxy 1 day ago | 0 comments

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?

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)