aint about cars.

brazilian big farm has made a mission out of destroying the amazon in every conceivable way for gringos to profit.

this gotta be the very least egregious shit happening over there.

peak liberal climate action on display

It honestly sometimes starts to feel like they’re gloating.

The jokes write themselves.

Because hosting it in a place with all the necessary infrastructure already in place would have made too much sense. Like, oh I don’t know, that one Brazilian city that recently hosted the World Cup and then the Olympics, both with many orders of magnitude more people attending than a climate conference. No gotta spend a fortune building brand new shit for a once in decades thing.

How much you want to bet this is just an excuse to funnel public money into a private construction firm?