This week kicked off the newest environmental circle jerk, as the United Nations kicked off its Climate Change Conference, dubbed COP30, on November 10, 2025, in Belém, Brazil. It serves as the latest example of the self-christened elites of the world gathering to lecture and hector the rabble, attempting to lord over the masses and demand payment to stem the threat of global calamity.
It is just the latest effort to keep the global climate emergency warming change crisis ongoing, and in typical fashion, they are operating in the most contradictory fashion. Carbon-emitting private jets will gather on tarmacs as the greenhouse output of the assembled masses will go ignored. And this year, it has become even more ignorantly offensive.
To start, we have none other than California Gov. Gavin Newsom glomming onto the opportunity to get more publicity for his assumed presidential run. He announced on Saturday that he would be attending, using the appearance as a chance to slam President Trump for spurning the conference. And as expected, Governor Brylcreem was a complete mess.
He sat on a panel and brought up the recent wildfires. Despite the details that have emerged in the aftermath - underfunded fire departments, absentee land management, reservoirs that were empty, which led to dry fire hydrants - there was Newsom, blaming the destruction on climate change. This is a man desperate to spin away from his own incompetence, blaming the environment for a fire that was caused by an arsonist and allowed to spread due to numerous leadership errors.
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Making this all the more ignorant, it has been measured that in order for him to preen before the cameras, Gavin took a private flight that totals over 5,000 miles traveled round-trip. Do-As-I-Say Newson aside, there is another reason to completely ignore these elitist scolds this month, and it is one of the more galling examples of hypocrisy that you will ever see.
As we stated, this conference is being held in Brazil, which is the location of what may be the most beloved arena of environmental activism, the Amazonian rainforest. The attendees will be getting a firsthand experience of the ecosystem, all because the government has decided to mow down significant portions of the rainforest in order to grant access to the rainforest.
It is a staggering dose of hypocrisy.
Tens of thousands of acres have been cleared, with estimates of 100,000 trees felled, as paving a highway through the region for conference access took place. Local indigenous farmers have seen their crops - such as naturally-growing acai berries - eliminated without compensation. And these residents do not even get access to the roadway, as it walls off the surrounding area.
This four-lane highway is said to be a sustainable access point to benefit the town of Belém. This conference is touted to be a boon for the area, as it will lead to project expansions like cruise ship accommodations and doubling the size of the airport, which are sure to negatively impact the local environment further.
New hotels are also being built and the port is being redeveloped so cruise ships can dock there to accommodate excess visitors. Brazil's federal government is investing more than $81m (£62m) to expand the airport capacity from "seven to 14 million passengers". A new 500,000 sq-m city park, Parque da Cidade, is under construction. It will include green spaces, restaurants, a sports complex and other facilities for the public to use afterwards.
This has just granted any pragmatic-thinking individual to abjectly ignore any ongoing lectures from these stunted “leaders.” The people who cannot even fathom saving the planet by conducting these video conferences were already worthy of our apathy, but to see them leaving a scar on the pristine rainforest so they can badger others about perceived carbon footprints is beyond acceptable.
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