Why posting this today OP?
Just over a week ago:
Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8rzg6zl00o (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244092)
they have an agenda, if you look at their submission history
bangers such as "why climate change is not an existential crisis" and "much climate hysteria just aimless guilt in search of futile acts of atonement"
people should lose their submission privileges after having dozens on dozens of flagged submissions, history of editorializing of titles, etc. some of their other non-climate submissions are really quite awful. just a bunch of rage bait.
> the cleared land which stretches more than 13km (8 miles)
But that said, the article also claims "tens of thousands of acres" cut down. 10,000 acres is 15 sq-miles. That's a lot more than an 8 mile freeway, unless I did some math wrong (possible).
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?
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)
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