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.

  • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    I swear those climate summits only exist so the super wealthy and powerful can rub our helplessness under our noses. There‘s no other explanation for this series of increasingly disgusting and perverted events. It‘s not just tone deafness, it‘s a display of power. They‘re fucking the planet simply because they can.

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      when they had the ASEAN in sf 23, they removed all the homeless people in the area for the week, its exactly like that. i saw a video recently how most countries practically gave up on said climate initiatives

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    301 month 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.

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    I always wondered why they can’t just do a fucking Zoom meeting…

    If I hadn’t improved my mental health over the last few years I really think I would’ve offed myself already. It’s so fucking depressing it’s not even funny anymore.

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    We need to fucking end the conference industry. And I’m including big sports events like the Super Bowl, the Olympics, World Cup, etc. No more moving around and building new infrastructure constantly for it to be abandoned afterwards.

    Just set the Olympics in Athens, Greece every four years, and stop with this massive waste. COP should be online only, considering its supposed goal.

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    It’s getting harder to believe that climate change is threat and not a grift when climate activist act this way.