Just a couple weeks ago, we had Bill Gates come out and say that the world is in really no big danger of climate change.

He said, we're going to survive and thrive in the foreseeable future.

And that brings me back to a pioneer in this conversation. It's the late Rosa Corey.

She wrote the book Behind the Green Mask. And she saw behind the green mask, this climate,

this climate change agenda that was really at all levels of government and non-government agencies.

And she wrote a book on it. And I want to take that theme and bring it through the segment today

because we just had last week the ending of COP 30. This was the United Nations Climate Change

Conference. It took place in Brazil. And literally from the ending of COP 30. This was the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

It took place in Brazil.

And literally from the inception of this conference, from the groundbreaking inception of this conference,

it was antithetical to climate change.

Take a look.

As Brazil prepares to host tens of thousands of climate summit delegates later this year.

There is visible evidence that the building work is causing deforestation.

Tens of thousands of acres of protected forests of the Amazon have been deforested

to make way for a new four-lane highway, as our South America correspondent Ionee Welles now reports.

Ableau. As our South America correspondent, Ionee Welles now reports. This is going to be a highway, and this is where it's being built.

Slicing through the Amazon rainforest, protected land until now.

The government here made a big deal about this COP summit being in the Amazon, about

the need to protect the Amazon, but preparations for the summit have already cut down some

of the last remaining protected forest in this area.

And for some reason, note this reminds me of Jeffrey.

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