EZRA LEVANT | Rebel News EXPOSES UN 'climate cult' in Brazil
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Summary
Rebel correspondent Sheila Gunn-Reed fills in for Ezra in Belém, Brazil, where the UN is holding a climate conference, and the hypocrisy flows even faster. She s in the rainforest, wading through UN spin and showing you what this conference actually looks like from on the ground.
Transcript
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The climate cult has descended on the Brazilian city named after Bethlehem.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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This week I've been reporting from the UN's climate conference city where the sewage flows into the Amazon and the hypocrisy flows even faster.
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Actually, I'm in the rainforest because I thought I should see it before the UN wrecks it.
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I'm filling in for Ezra tonight because he's back in Canada on a special mission and I'm here in Belém, Brazil, stranded for most of the day because to save money on flights,
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my videographer, Kian Simone, had to leave hours before I did.
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So while Ezra's off doing something important, you've got me killing time in the Amazon heat and humidity,
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my deodorant hanging on for dear life, wading through UN spin and showing you what this conference actually looks like from on the ground.
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Now, let me start with this. The people of Belém have been incredible, warm, generous, hard-working,
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and they deserve far better than what the UN has done to this city.
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Because for all the UN's endless lecturing about protecting the rainforest,
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they've been dumping their garbage into a local favela.
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Now, the UN didn't choose to set up beside the favela.
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They don't want the world to see how 60% of the city actually lives, but their trash ended up there anyway.
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We found it in a neighbourhood that locals warned us was too dangerous to enter.
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And in the backdrop to all of this, Belém almost has no sanitation system.
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Over 95% of the wastewater, including raw sewage, just flows straight into the Amazon basin,
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into the same river system delegates will pose in front of as they lecture the world about sustainability.
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The Amazon as a prop, locals as an afterthought.
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Now, every penny spent making it easier for the United Nations should have been spent making life better for the people here.
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And the delegates, well, they haven't been arriving on cruise ships, but they've been living on cruise ships
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because local accommodations aren't good enough for them.
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Floating hotels, running full power, full air conditioning, full luxury,
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all so that the climate activists never actually have to stay in the city.
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Oh, and the rivers of sewage, well, they just run right out past the luxury cruise ships.
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And then we did what thousands of journalists who came to the city just didn't feel like doing.
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We found the highway carved through the rainforest meant to alleviate UN-related traffic in this host city.
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And then there's the UN's treatment of skeptical media.
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They finally accredited Rebel News after a nine-year ban, officially, on paper.
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And then when we showed up with that accreditation, well, they refused to let us in with no explanation, no due process,
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just another locked door for journalists who ask real questions that people actually care about.
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Now, in the midst of all of this, I'll tell you the thought that kept coming back to me.
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The next time I'm in Canada trying to sift through a government-mandated soggy paper straw
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or buying my 6,000th reusable bag of the year to get my groceries home,
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I'll picture the actual environmental disaster the UN is hosting at this conference.
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Rivers of garbage and sewage in the streets in the showcase city.
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Now, Ezra will be back soon from his special mission.
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Sweaty, frizzy-haired by humidity, marooned by airline schedules,
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and reporting the truth the climate establishment doesn't want the world to see.
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Now, coming up, I've got a couple of reports, actually three, that you don't want to miss.
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First, the moment we discovered the UN's garbage dumped in a dangerous favela
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and the conditions the global climate elite claim don't exist.
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Second, how Rebel News was accredited and then just re-banned by the United Nations,
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slammed out of the venue they claimed we were allowed to enter.
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And finally, my closing thoughts from here on the ground in Bulem
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after days of witnessing the gap between the UN's rhetoric and the reality.
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And thank you to all of those of you who chipped in to get us here.
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And as Ezra always says, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed for Rebel News, and I'm here at the port of Otero in Bulem, Brazil.
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This is the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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To see all of our coverage and to support our trip and our journalism here,
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And the story is those two cruise ships behind me,
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they were actually brought in as floating hotels.
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Now, when walking up to get the shot of the cruise ships,
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we went up to the terminal that was specially built
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for the climate change conference for these two ships specifically.
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You see, Bulem, Brazil processes roughly 4% of its sewage.
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Only 20% of the wastewater is even really captured.
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20% of households here have access to the sewage system.
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We had to hop an Uber to get to the port of Otero.
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to get from the port to the climate change conference.
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in a car or a bus to get to the climate change conference.
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It's very difficult to find where we are on Google Maps.
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What's behind me is what's called Avienda Liberdade.
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but it is the highway, the 13 kilometer highway
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to alleviate the traffic, if you can believe that,
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for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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as it carves its way through the Amazon rainforest,
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And that's not because we don't have the equipment.
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we met a man who works security on this highway
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and he said part of his job is shooting the drones down.
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because we would never have the drone ever again.
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because right beside this highway construction site
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And I've traveled a fair bit in the course of my job.
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that we're the ones that are destroying the environment,
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that we need to triple and quadruple our efforts
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Now, normally when we go to these conferences of hypocrites,
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In fact, in advance of the climate change conference,
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that are flying in and out of this Amazonian city.
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Again, if you care about those sorts of things,
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Now, that's roughly about the same annual emissions
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again something a city full of international journalists
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and I bet some of those international journalists
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because they're sitting in the air conditioning