I’m starting to get the idea that environmentalists don’t actually want us to take them seriously. That’s what I can come away with regarding their preparations for the COP30 climate summit.

Which involved paving over thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest in order to build a four-lane highway leading to the location of the summit.

If you were hoping that you read that wrong, your day may have just been ruined.

The so-called intellectuals, who wanted to virtue signal over the environment being destroyed, just had thousands of acres of delicate ecosystem destroyed because they didn’t want to be inconvenienced.

If it was about inconvenience, they could have just had their little summit over Zoom, rather than consuming fuel with their private jets.

But when it comes down to it, climate summits are largely just performances, and for there to be the performance that they want, they have to emit immense amounts of carbon and pave over whatever forests they have to in order to reach their arbitrary venue.

This whole matter has some troubling implications when you consider that the elites who bloviate about the environment are some of the same clowns who are running the circus. What other decisions are they making that are self-defeating and bad for the rest of us? Or do they even care?

If only there was an obvious way to know whether these guys actually believe what they say.