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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (www.bbc.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 31 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Robert Moses is such a fascinating character.

Have you listened along with the 99pi Breakdown of the Power Broker? They just finished, and they had lots of guests including Robert Caro!, Pete Butigeg, and AOC.

https://99percentinvisible.org/club/

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't listened to that podcast in ages. Thanks for the heads-up, listening while I slave for the man.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

You betcha!

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

until you learned that a powerful or wealthy person stood to gain from doing it that way.

He was also an incredibly petty and racist person. No one stood to gain from the only city park to have an animal motif being the one in Harlem having an monkey motif.

Part One: The Man Who Ruined New York | BEHIND THE BASTARDS