Unprecedented flooding in Brazil leaves hundreds of thousands displaced
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"Climate" does not appear in that article. Flood plain. Dam.
> According to the group, Rio Grande do Sul lost 22 percent of its native vegetation, or 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres), from 1985 to 2022.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240522-experts-say-de...
The burning question I have that maybe is too far off topic for news of a disaster, is how fast and in what magnitude do we learn about our mistakes?
In the very best case, the current climate is the climate of the future.
For example, just in one instance, 127 million people has been affected in Guangdong province this April.
here's a video of how crazy flooding gets in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfhd7bVEnh0.
Fwiw, the 2 factors you mention - urbanisation and reduced wetlands - would fall into bad town planning, in my book, ie a local cause.
The systems Porto Alegre and Canoas had in place used to work. When the river there goes over 3 meters it starts to flood some places, okay? Once every few years there was a flood of like, 3.5 meters, 3.7 sometimes. Those were floods that rose slowly, giving ample time to answer to situations as they arose.
In this case, on the 2nd of May, the river reached 3 meters. By midnight, the river was at 3.60 meters already. 24 hours later, the river was at 4.9 meters, and it still rose, slowly now, to 5.3 meters.
The system that was in place was completely overwhelmed. Pumping stations failed and the water started coming through the pumping stations, for example.
That said, yes, the writing was on the wall. If a place regularly floods a bit to the point you need to have dykes and pumping stations in place, eventually it will flood a lot.
At the same time it still produces 1/7 of the CO2 per capita of the USA, Canada and Australia, or 1/4 of what China, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, UK, etc.
Brazil bears responsibility (even more when Bolsonaro was in power) but if those countries had the emissions per capita that Brazil has the world would be in a much, much better state climate-wise.
You don't seem to realise climate patterns are interconnected.
But rather: "They are trying to kill us! Chemtrails! HAARP!"
Do you not think:
- climate change is an existential threat
- it is being caused by economic oriented activity
- people are trying at their professions?
Besides that: is your gameplay perfect, or at least causes less harm than the global per person average, necessarily?
Unprecedented, so far !