Peter Clack
@PeterDClack
Belém, one week after COP30. Private jets gone. Raw sewage still runs in the streets. The shiny new 'Freedom Avenue' is already a smugglers’ highway for illegal timber and cocaine. The 56,000 delegates partied on floating 5-star hotels, then vanished. The bill: $2 billion for a ghost convention centre and a 13 km scar through the rainforest that’s already driven deforestation alerts up 15% (INPE).
They promised to triple adaptation finance ($120 bn/yr by 2035) and commit billions for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility: Great soundbites. But where’s the money for Vila da Barca families wading through shit? Where’s the soy moratorium 90 countries demanded? Where’s any binding end to deforestation?
Days before COP, Brazil approved oil drilling at the Amazon’s mouth. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Indigenous leaders storming the venue, kids burying fossil fuels in a mock funeral, banners screaming 'Our forest is not for sale' – it was beautiful. Yet the chainsaws are louder than ever, and Belém remains forgotten.
Biggest COP30 failure for this city?
A) Empty promises
B) The highway scar
C) Elite green hypocrisy
Vote or scream, then tell me: what the hell do we DO with all this rage?
#COP30Hangover #AmazonReality