Commentator Adam Brooks has hit out at the “climate hypocrisy” in Brazil as workers cut down thousands of Amazon rainforest trees to create a new highway for the Cop30 climate summit in November.
However, the deforestation has sparked outrage from locals and conservationists, as the new highway cuts through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest, stretching more than 8 miles into Belém.
Discussing the creation of the highway on GB News, commentator Adam Brooks claimed it highlights the “complete climate con” on a global scale.
Adam Brooks hit out at the ‘hypocrisy’ of the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in preparation for the Cop30 climate summit
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Brooks fumed: “Let’s be honest, in my opinion, the climate propaganda is so they can tax us and control us over the next few decades.
“This just shows the hypocrisy and the absurdity of these climate lunatics, and most of them will probably fly in on private jets.”
In a pointed attack on the climate agenda, he added: “They want to tell us that we can’t have one holiday a year? I’m sick and tired of it, and I think people are waking up to this con.
“There’s a hell of a lot of money for governments to be able to tax us and control us to get there, or pretend that they’re going to get there.”
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Critics argue the deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summitREUTERSWeighing in on the project, Director of the Popular Conservatives Mark Littlewood urged world leaders to “stop the summits all together”.
Littlewood explained: “Stop these summits. I’ve been witnessing this since Cop23 – they say this is the last chance to save mankind, they always say it each summit.
“So why do you need another one? We’ve had 30 editions of it, and this is a total racket. You do not need 50,000 people to meet for a gathering to talk about the future of the environment, let alone doing so in a way which is so egregiously anti-environmentalist.”
Criticising the move further, host Ben Leo branded the deforestation an “evil act” in favour of a “scam conference”.
Brooks told GB News that people are ‘waking up’ to the ‘climate propaganda’
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Leo stated: “I think this is really evil behaviour, chopping down sacred trees. I love trees – they’ve been there for many, many years, they’re full of wisdom, they’re beautiful.
“Chopping them down so you can get 50,000 delegates to your scam conference completely contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit.”
The highway is one of about 30 projects Belém is undertaking to prepare for the summit, including new hotels and airport expansion.
Brazil’s federal government is investing more than £62million to expand airport capacity from “seven to 14 million passengers”.