Climate catastrophe: Brazil's devastating flood - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service

Record rains in southern Brazil have displaced almost 600,000 people. A month later and roads remain blocked, the airport is closed and many people will never return home.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has declared it a "climate catastrophe". Officials are writing off whole neighbourhoods - telling residents these places can never be made safe. Caitríona Perry speaks with BBC Brasil reporters Daniel Gallas and Leandro Prazeres, who have been finding out what this means for people in the flood zone, and asks if there are lessons for all of us in a warming world.
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Shock at scale of flooding
01:49 Fleeing houses overnight
02:37 'Like an area that had been bombed'
03:09 What is Rio Grande do Sul like?
04:08 Three months of rain in two weeks
05:13 Reactions from around Brazil
05:57 Footballers and Olympians help out
07:36 Logistical difficulties after the flood
08:07 The people 'felt lost'
09:14 What people have lost
09:47 Abandoned neighbourhoods
10:38 Promise of new homes
11:37 Impact of climate change
12:42 How Brazilians think and talk about climate change
14:19 Why is the water not going away?
15:19 Plans for helping displaced people
16:12 Political importance of the floods
16:39 'Depressed' outlook of people in Porto Alegre
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[@ElissaEngelbourg]

I've seen hardly anything about this story in the U.S. news online. I had no idea it was this bad. Thanks for sharing and making me aware. My heart goes out to the suffering people.

[@RuthLopez-tn3uv]

Prepare yourself. If you start paying attention to world-wide climate disasters, you're in for a shock. We're much further into the Climate Crisis than most Americans know. We need to start preparing for mass climate migrations now, but we won't

[@James-kv6kb]

So sad that America is front and centre when it comes to environmental degradation and advertising products made in China in dirty factories that are killing the world an Americans are blissfully unaware

[@tellya_69]

There are way too much hidden info, but here we can't even publish on social media without being labelled or banned, so the government can be unpunished.

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

I’m also really concerned that Australian news media has very little coverage of this - or any other extreme weather happening in the world right now - if it wasn’t for KZbin I would be oblivious. It seems as if someone is pressuring media not to report on it.

[@davidaltamirano6828]

Warning? What warning? It's consequences here and now. Media insist on using this 'infantilizing' language to talk to the public. Stop.

[@rdallas81]

KZbin and almost all media are censoring any truth especially about climate, dollars, the truth about UKRAINE AND Israel while painting China and Russia as enemies time and history will show its actually the US and its Talmudic Zionists who are creating these issues

[@user-ru3ql6ji4p]

People have been warned. Some prefer to ignore the warnings and doubt the Science about Climate Change. It's a choice.

[@iaraos779]

Yes and nobody talks about how they Will probably still the damaged lands....if people doesnt have the propper title of the land....but tradicional occupation...

[@Onequietvoice]

Exactly correct.

[@MBRTBT2023]

Warning for the rest of the world, darling. For you it's a fact already.

[@diagonauta5608]

The English-speaking viewer will not get a real sense of the scale of the events, the desperation, and the natural and historical characteristics of this iconic state from the correspondents in the video. Their descriptions were superficial, particularly in the case of Mr. Daniel Gallas, who seemed like a random passerby. They could have provided a better understanding of certain aspects, even with limited time. For example, they could have mentioned that the floodgate and pump system completed in the 1970s, designed to prevent floods like the one in 1941, was meant to be the most efficient in Brazil. However, after many decades of calm, people forgot the risks, and even mayoral candidates promised to tear down the wall to reconnect the urban landscape with the river. Over successive administrations, the lack of priority led to serious neglect in maintaining the system. They could have also highlighted the importance of wind in retaining the Guaíba River, explaining that this body of water is controversial because it has characteristics of both a river and a lake. Furthermore, it is connected to a lagoon, commonly referred to as a lake, which has a single narrow outlet to the sea affected by the tides.

[@cassandra2249]

Absolutely grim, I just don't think people are even remotely prepared for what is coming, down the line, with climate change and the devastation it will bring.

[@robertmarmaduke186]

Absolutely grim is the Weather 101 fact that *torrential rains are caused by COLD FRONTS,* after we just had the longest coldest winter in decades on both northern and southern hemispheres, freezing in Mexico even SNOW in North Africa and Saudi Arabia. In the tropics is rains every night as the air COOLS, and only sees torrential rains from occasional monsoon seasonal COLD DOWNDRAFT CYCLONICS. *MAGIC CO2!*

[@DiscipleofHim]

@@robertmarmaduke186 Plato's Allegory of the Cave explains your view. There are two ways to be fooled; Believe what isnt true and refuse to believe what is true. You my friend, are fooled if you say the great acceleration of climate is not real.

[@andobatista4207]

​@robertmarmaduke186 how interesting to read someone who is so focus on a very very small, specific event, across the globe, ignoring context. Such as. The COLD FRONT which caused the torrential rains in Brazil's south normally would go up north and spread as per normal. BUT because of the abnormal high and long HEAT in the southeast reason just above the south BLOCKED the passage of this cold front! So people just had 3 months of rains falling for 2 weeks. It's so stupid, sorry, and arrogant to feel you know better than people who work their entire lives with it. 😂😂

[@robertmarmaduke186]

@@andobatista4207 +0.04°C per year that's +0.025% increase in heat evapotranspiration per year, and you go End of Days Greta over _weather patterns!_ *It's 12°C in PacNW USA today with all-day cold Summer Solstice rain.* Care to explain, Obiwan? *Magic CO2!*

[@andobatista4207]

🥱🥱🥱😴😴😴​@@robertmarmaduke186

[@sinceresong9907]

Yet "its not impacting me" attitude prevails, till it does impact us directly

[@scottprather5645]

Looks like we've worn out our welcome mat with the Earth

[@sinceresong9907]

definitely

[@robertmarmaduke186]

Have a Swedish friend who commented one day on Greta's good acting ability. I asked what do you mean? _He said she's a paid child actress!_ Her whole family are in show business! *Greta is Sweden's version of Anne of Green Gables!* 😂🙈

[@James-kv6kb]

No human beings are just too stupid to realise that they're not the only ones that exist. They don't care about the environment as long as they've got toys to play with but don't want to ask where the toys come from

[@Seawithinyou]

It was so heartwarming to see South American athletes give their strength support let alone others to help their fellow countrymen Bless you All I myself have some beautiful South American friends and feel for you all ❤️🙏🏼

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

meanwhile the Pantanal is burning - the world's largest wetland mainly in Brazil (and invaded illegally by Cargill!)

[@robertmarmaduke186]

The global World Forest was always on fire somewhere on Earth until the last Ice Age wiped them out to 30°N

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@robertmarmaduke186 yes fire creates sulfur particulates which is why all the fires from human farming canceled out the CO2 emissions also until industrialization. So human caused global warming started with the invention of farming at the start of the Holocene but the effects of global warming have been covered up by the Aerosol Masking Effect. This means that a 40% reduction of burning coal, for example, actually heats up Earth another 1 degree Celsius global average due to less sulfur particulates in the air from burning coal. Our current rate of CO2 emissions is the fastest rate of co2 emissions in the history of complex life on Earth for over 500 million years.

[@Kryssyskingdom]

While mass geoengineering going on, on a daily basis, more heavily than usual than in past years in many countries for months now but is never discussed nor researched the impact it has nor the side effects on the people nor land or water but must all be climate change while the overlords play God with the skies.. not saying it is the cause but the reality it is a factor that is never discussed by the press gets louder with their complicit silence

[@leiladarling4495]

The Magnates are re decorating the planet. Get your Insurance policy updated. God Bless

[@cbrashsorensen]

My God...are we still thinking we are being WARNED. We are in the middle of the failing Earth on which we have managed to poop and move on until the human species leaves itself and the world that sustained dying at our hands.

[@cleitondeinani5087]

It’s soo sad to me seeing my home state back in Brazil going through this situation 😢

[@RicardoSchaal]

Several regions were hit by more than 700 mm (27 inches) of rain in just one week. Neither the population, governments, infrastructure or animals were prepared for this. Most of the rescues were done by the population and by their own means. The situation came to the point that if you don´t need help, you need to help. The population its taking the lead, improvising shelters, bringing food and clothes for those in need, rebuilding roads and even bridges. Thanks for everyone who is helping in someway.

[@PatDonlon4711]

The world weather pattern has changed and we are experiencing these horrendous effects ...on a global scale.

[@MarceloAlves-jx2yn]

This kind of situation hapens in the country every year, killing people and destroying their homes, but what happened in Porto Alegre is quite shocking. It´s a whole diferent story. The country is not prepared for this, and it will only get worse.

[@leiladarling4495]

We need to say: get life safe vests! Get potable water and a flash light! Get a tall stairs!

[@-crazypants-3199]

Its not an if or maybe. It’s happening right now as we speak. And we are still arguing about its existence.

[@mujkocka]

Voted for allowing clearing Amazon has consequences. Keep the indigenous guardians safe

[@QueenMelissaOrd]

Agreed 👍

[@mnmlst1]

There's no Amazon forest in the state this happened. The biome there is called pampas. What happened there is because of climate change in general and stupid and corrupt politicians who knew this was about to happen and didn't do anything to minimize an incoming catastrophe.

[@tobiasdossantosgomes4688]

I agree whe should preserve Amazon and keep indigenous guardians safe, but it's not so simple.

[@sinceresong9907]

right, no roots, trunks to drink up water and balance weather systems

[@marcoantoniochierici]

TOGETHER WE'LL SAVE THE PLANET

[@geoffoakland]

South Florida is under water too, 50cm of rain in the last 3 days.

[@robertmarmaduke186]

South Florida Water District average rainfall for the last week is 8.75 inches or just 22cms, with peak daily about 3cm/day, ... but nice try.

[@heww3960]

Im over 50cm tall so it is ok.

[@Thomas-xy4sh]

True, however not a fair analogy. NOLA , Katrina would be similar.

[@adampope5107]

Beachfront property costs are already collapsing in many communities.

[@geoffoakland]

@@adampope5107 I'm not surprised. Yet at the same time there are massive expensive condominiums being built in Miami Beach.

[@wind-leader_jp]

Report from Japan. I've been worried about the weather forecast not being accurate since last year, and I saw the same video on PBS in the US. If this is a global symptom, then it is truly evidence of climate change. When it rained a little bit last year, it used to stop after a few hours, but it kept coming back and forth for about 20 hours straight. As a result, water overflowed from the river where construction was underway, causing partial flooding. That's why floods are scary not only in violent storms, but also in continuous rain. Hail is also rampant in many parts of the world. Floods and hail destroy crops all around. If individuals do not save more energy and slow global warming even a little, food shortages will lead to war. I recommend a passive cooler like my icon.

[@mawasorangutan]

Warmer climate made the atmosphere able to hold more water vapor, thus creating more precipitation & much heavier rainfall in a shorter period of time

[@marinagasolina]

This is not an individual fault. This is big companies and the capitalist system.

[@maybemablemaples2144]

​@@marinagasolina 💯. Oil companies knew what they were doing. They purposely muddled the information about global warming and climate change. They made scientists into a political punching bag. They sold us lies just to keep power.

[@tjevans3025]

I really thank the BBC for producing this compelling and chilling work of Journalism. I watched this on June 14, 2024, and up until now I was not aware of this unprecedented catastrophe. Caitríona Perry does a great job at presenting this, and it's easy to see her heart and genuine concern for our rapidly changing climate is sincere. The shear scale of this should have put it front and center on every news channel in the world. Nearly, 1 million people displaced is distressing and portends a coming catastrophe that we are simply not prepared for. Caitríona - does a great job with her thoughtful questions, and video footage - in bringing the scale of this into focus. I am sure that the vast majority of people have no doubts that our climate is changing and it's accelerating faster than previous models predicted. The key area of confusion is that there were always hurricanes, big supercharged storm systems, flooding, and wild fires long before we realized that humans were dramatically changing the climate. The manmade changes (via burning fossil fuels) essentially adds a great deal of energy in the form of heat to our existing climate, so the amount of water dropped in a rain storm is amplified. The same is true with extensive drought and wild fire events that always were a part of our climate, but as you increase heat - energy - you evaporate more water, and much faster. Day by day our climate models are being updated as more data is compiled, and we are experiencing catastrophic "consequences" Now. This isn't a phenomenon of some distant dystopian future climate change theory. It's affecting the world in a big way Now. The most up-to-date supercomputer generated models are showing major parts of the world underwater (not by the end of the century) but in the next 15 to 25 years. In the here and now we are seeing an acceleration of extreme weather events world wide day by day. At some point the magnitude of destruction will be insurmountable - crops fail - our ability to rebuild infrastructure is exceeded and civilization as we know it collapses. Clearly, we are on the brink.

[@robertmarmaduke186]

"The manmade changes -(via burning fossil fuels)- essentially adds a great deal of energy in the form of heat to our existing climate, so the amount of water dropped in a rain storm is amplified." The increased temperature (they claim) is +0.04ºC per year. By elementary algebra, any increase in evaporation is 0.04ºC/15ºC or *+0.25% per year,* since water freezes below 0ºC. +0.25% increase in rainfall is due to 'climate change'. *The rest is due to WEATHER.* "Major parts of the world underwater!" Really? +2.5mm per year (they claim) will take *720 years to dampen Miami streets.*

[@peachBloom]

It's not man made climate change. The huge undersea eruption of Hunga Tonga north of New Zealand on January 15, 2022, shot large amounts of water droplets, SO2, and ash into the stratosphere. It took one year to circle the globe, and in the second year, the northern hemisphere started to experience heavier and more frequent rain, snow, and hailstorm. This has resulted in flooding in Europe and other regions. The earth will continue to experience heavier precipitation for up to ten years after Hunga Tonga!

[@robertmarmaduke186]

@@peachBloom 14°C AM, that's -10°C of AGW below normal, and for weeks. Garden squash at 6cm, still dormant in JUNE! March 2022 had garden staked 2m tall. 2023 barely had ripe tomatoes. This year all 74 tomato transplants _died_ in the cold ground. *Magic CO2!* The ESG Carbon Tithe will save them! _"We'll all be rich and healthy and we're never gonna die!"_ SG Gutierrez 😂💩🔥

[@thesjkexperience]

Yes, it’s ironic that social media would kill civilization. But it’s looking like that’s what will happen.

[@brookside5045]

HA, Ha, HA, hey chicken little, guess what? the sky is falling also. I heard it on MSNBC or was it CNN? I can't remember. But if the news said it, it has to be true. 🤣😂😃 You need to wake the hell up. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid. 🤣😂😅

[@RoughNeckDelta]

'Climate refugees', get used to this term.

[@fsnr9]

So Happy to see Caitríona Perry who I follow from Ireland and now she at The US BBC talking about my country Brazil. 🇧🇷 I feel glad that at this hard moment dear ones are looking at us.

[@FlippFlipps]

Yes, she's a breathless of fresh air amongst mostly stale reporting!

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet Now!

[@marcoantoniochierici]

WE'LL MAKE IT

[@wadeyoung3680]

Tell this to china

[@leiladarling4495]

The Magnates are re decorating the Planet!

[@graxxor]

Planet is fine. We, on the other hand…

[@marcoantoniochierici]

@@graxxor

[@pontosinterligados]

A candidate who ended in second in the race for mayor of Porto Alegre warned more than 4 years ago about the lack of maintenance on hydraulic pumps and had promised to address that issue. Did people willing to vote ever thought about hydraulic pump maintenance? The current governor wanted to tear down the wall that protects the city downtown from flooding…people are just being fooled by politicians.

[@7hilladelphia]

Wow.... that's therefor an avoidable tragedy or at least not as bad.

[@andacomfeeuvou]

I can't say for sure but I believe that the tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul is unique and unprecedented in modern times (last 200 years) if we take into account the size of the affected area, the size of the affected population and the depth of the impact on life of millions of people. Eu não posso afirmar com certeza mas acredito que a tragédia do Rio Grande do Sul é única sem precedentes em tempos modernos (últimos 200 anos) se levarmos em conta o tamanho da área atingida, o tamanho da população atingida e a profundidade do impacto na vida de milhões de pessoas. .

[@jam6636]

Han habido peores, cómo la inundación de los años ´40 en Países Bajos por ejemplo. Pero de todas formas los que ocurrió y sigue ocurriendo en RS es tristemente histórico. Muchas Fuerza Hermano, saludos de Uruguay

[@TanoSmith-yd8lx]

Sending prayers 🙏 to Brazil... Didn't know they were going through this....its flooding everywhere.... Stay safe everyone

[@alexsf4248]

It’s absurd that the media in the US haven’t covered this catastrophe. An area about the size of England was affected.

[@x1achilles99]

Still want to buy that house in Florida?

[@9UaYXxB]

EXACTLY . The utter god-damned buffoonery of the economic model of capitalism , the chicanery of it, exposed with it's pants around it's ankles. And this calamity in Porto Allegre is SMALL in scale compared to the flooding of a THIRD of Pakistan, which happened less than 2 years ago and (similarly) persisted for many many weeks after the rains that precipitated the overall flooding, and ruined the already difficult live of millions there.

[@JulianFoley]

A beautifully presented, compassionate account of an appalling tragedy.

[@pontosinterligados]

Now you should investigate how the German based Fraport is dealing with their contract obligations regarding that airport underwater

[@jam6636]

Yeah can we get a collaboration between BBC and DW on this European company that wants all the money but takes no responsibility for the well being of millions of people hanging from their wallets.

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

The Brazilian city Curitiba took steps to climate proof their city since the 1970s already. Since most people will live in cities by 2050, city planners, developers & managers need to become water sensitive (too much or too little water). You can't plan for extreme weather while its happening, you have to prep years in advance. Ignore the climate crisis at your peril.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Curitiba has done what though?

[@radman1136]

It's cute that you think people will still be alive in 2050.

[@user-ru3ql6ji4p]

Porto Alegre has done that in the 70's as well. The Mayor betrayed Porto Alegre and turned off the pumping system. Do you due diligence.

[@leannecoffey8964]

wow just checked out Curitiba, amazing! What incredible foresight

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

@@radman1136 Preople will still be alive, but perhaps quality of life won't be so good. I agree with you that the future looks very grim as things stand now. However climate change is affecting various places differently with some places more at risk that others. There are many climate refugees already, even within developed countries like the usa. Life is about the get "interesting"... happy days!

[@radman1136]

All 5 Counties at the southern tip of Florida are now underwater. In Mexico City they are shutting off drinking water to whole neighborhoods and talking about being a month or two away from being out of water period. Meanwhile in Southern Mexico and Central America the poor howler monkeys are falling out of the trees unconscious because of the heat and habitat degradation in general.

[@sinceresong9907]

serious times

[@leiladarling4495]

The Magnates are re decorating the planet.

[@Seawithinyou]

And Florida is in a flooding catastrophe along with countries More shall follow as no country is safe 🕊🌏🙏🏼

[@rdallas81]

We haven't seen anything yet. Those who know already know these are times of trouble. When nations promote Pride, and vanity, and moral decline, Wrath is the only thing to expect. All written Long ago and will come to pass exactly as described by the prophets

[@babajaga158]

What other countries? Like every year. Nothing new.

[@Seawithinyou]

@@babajaga158 With polar jet streams of not only Notth now South is giving very unpredictable weather forecasts So extreme and unpredictable that even our Aotearoa NZ weathermen are finding it hard to decipher on the next few days forecasts As our country is so small compared to others

[@babajaga158]

@@Seawithinyou and thats something new?? When did weatherman ever predicted anything right past 24hr? We were going to get drout here in Australia last year. Oh the outlook was so grim and..... Floods, fire and other events slways been on earth and always will be

[@nottenvironmental6208]

Us scientist's have been warning for decades of the suffering from fossil fuel use. Still emissions rise. Insane governance

[@mamabear8641]

Unfortunately USA ignores regenerative agricultural and forestry. There are productive counter measures we can do but it is ignored because it does not result in corporate revenue. Follow the money.

[@aviel4218]

Yeah, God classified greed as a deadly sin and yet most governments are helping the sin thrive to the point where it heavily harms mother nature😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢.​@@mamabear8641

[@jam6636]

I also hope scientists emphasized how US and Europe are the regions responsible for Man Made Climate Change

[@Tammissa]

These poor people. How horrible. Is the government not going to do the right thing and help people rebuild their homes? I understand some have little $ but that’s exactly why the government should be helping people out, get them back on their feet.

[@BBCWorldService]

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[@forestfox66]

Your podcasts are much better with images, thanks.

[@ManyTimesRAUL]

The real disaster here was the government. You should be talking about the authorities' incompetence in responding to this tragedy. It took more than a week for them to realize the magnitude of these floods. While the floods were affecting most of the population in the south, the mainstream media was concerned with reporting on Madonna's concert in Rio de Janeiro

[@ManyTimesRAUL]

I must acknowledge the support network and the national mobilization that took place in the following weeks. Thank you to those who have helped us so diligently. However, for the most part, the help was driven by the population. The population themselves is rebuilding roads and bridges. We pay high taxes, and the response is not up to par.

[@thesjkexperience]

Really nice they took a football rivalry and help the people! 🎉❤

[@IB4UUB4ME]

Help is on the way! Praise Jah!

[@dwilson6769]

It's happening in Minnesota, Iowa too

[@verysad2036]

Thank you for letting us know about all of this

[@helea426]

It’s sad a major life changing event not is talked about. The BBC has done well on this reporting coverage but poor in informing us in the UK. I would like to hear of these important events.

[@arachutti]

But he did not answer (at 13:55) the question completely. P. Lula is far away and yet help came faster from the federal government than from the state and the city government. In fact the mayor and the governor, with their neoliberal choices, are the real culprits for the calamity. They have pushed against environment protection laws and neglected our flood prevention system, which were designed to withstand a flood this size. They ignored reports and warnings from scientists and the city and state own technical expertise. Their only focus is how to sell more of the city and state public lands and companies, and how to support inescrupulous developers who with their help bypass environmental assessment and regulations. The population of the city and the state have zero value for these people.

[@ErnestoSun]

Great work! Please cover the now of Derna in Lybia.

[@user-hr4gn7jk1b]

Anyone in the world wants to see life is beautiful. No one wants to see life bad . Mental health with Doctors Mike

[@JRMilward]

"We'll wade into just what that means..."? There's a time and a place for light-hearted puns, and it's not during a disaster.

[@Clouds-su3dc]

Here are all the ways I could think of what people can do to protect themselves from the extreme heat and cool down the earth. ❄️ 1. Replace dark coloured roofs with white roofs to get high sunlight reflectivity to keep much cooler automatically. 2. Use insulated curtains, but make sure those insulated curtain colour is pure white to get a high albedo for the sunlight to be reflected to keep cooler. 3. Use a fan to air circulate some basement cooler air upstairs and place a fan from your window outside during night time to in bring that cooler and fresher air. 4. Use plants to regulate humidity and to provide that slight cooling effect through their leaves. 5. Try using cooling fans that is required to use through only ice but if you are in a dryer climate then use evaporator coolers. 6. Wear pure white, to reflect heat off of you and have it be slightly wet to keep cool and have a fan blowing on you with it to feel even cooler. 7. Have cold drinks 8. Reduce your using your electricity on things that releases the most heat out of them. 9. Plant trees around your house and if possible try making it so some of the trees can be providing shade on your house roof to keep temperatures from rising on sunny days. 10. Take cool shower. 11. Paint your walls white if possible to reflect some extra heat. 12. Paint certain entrances like the outside of your garage and doors white or even a lighter color to reflect the heat to reduce urban heat island effect to keep heat from entering your home. Bonus: Even have your driveway painted a lighter colour over a darker colour to reflect more sunlight and reduce the urban heat island effect from your outside surrounding area so your home can stay a little extra slightly cooler. Thank you 😊 and for the extra bonus, let more people know about this so that when they do these ideas and strategies too they can protect themselves from the extreme heat and also help the Earth’s temperatures get reduced faster because all these ideas causes the air conditioners runs much less often which leads to less pollution of CO2 and because with the help of planting more trees it is absorbing more CO2 pollution and storing it into their trunks as food which means less warming for the planet + the trees slight cooling effect through their leafs that is being released into the air overtime helping regulating the temperatures from getting too hot and rising. And another one because there is more sunlight being reflected by using white and even lighter colours helps to reduce urban heat island effect and keep the Earth cooler automatically. 👍

[@PedroDoderoEscalante]

Please, don't use the sound wave visual effect. It is horrible and could cause seizures.

[@lindapindabelinda3570]

Is that what makes the introduction to the video so difficult to listen to? I almost shut it off, but it stopped.

[@mike74h]

​@@lindapindabelinda3570It's a visual effect. You can't listen to it.

[@graxxor]

What is a “sound wave visual effect”?

[@screechingwind114]

12:10 ​@@graxxor

[@richardstravelingchannel2397]

As warmer temperatures and catastrophes increase, loss of many lives will cause more diseases. On top of the planetary destruction to feed more animals? Humans could rethink what they are doing and the ultimate costs

[@MrMountainchris]

Its almost like they shouldn't have cut down the rainforest and put concrete over top of it? We humans deserve every bit of wrath Mother Nature is going to give us.

[@dxfran20]

Stop cutting down the trees!!!

[@dio69666]

Yes. Didn't it just happen in Florida too?

[@user-pp6rx4qx6l]

Very nice, enjoyed the presentation, and the information.

[@stefaniepauels642]

We don’t have to talk about if it’s climate change anymore. It’s already real and the problem of weather getting stuck to one region is just the start. Heatwaves in the east, drowning in the west…. what else do we need!? Buckel up everyone, or maybe start to see that’s no question if you are left or right, big or small, black or white or whatever, we all live on this planet, and it’s an angry one.

[@Pecisk]

People on right was given a promise they won't have to share. That is their life moto. They realize that ego is not a way to go anymore, but it is existential threat in their eyes. So they will cheat, lie, bullshit their way out of this.

[@stefaniepauels642]

@@Pecisk cheat , lie and BS is the way the big money owners go. I know. But we have to fight for the truth, unfortunately with no lobbying on our side.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@verleguntrumjr.2787]

And I’m depressed for no reason. These folks have no options. And yes, the US is becoming expensive and as I’ve said before, there’s a correlation between increased homelessness and eviction/foreclosures, prior to an economic collapse. It’s coming…….

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. It’s a tragic event and more to come this coming summer and it’s only June the agricultural season is going to be wiped out if this continues .All over the world.

[@user-yq8ck8yf3u]

Yes it all ends up on floodplains. It's what they are, and how they were formed. Easy to build on, and fertile but

[@Pecisk]

This is just beginning. Huge amount of refugees, less and less stable places to go. This is what obsession with growth, industrialism and capitalism has done to us.

[@spudsT]

Really? You’re gonna make a pun about this story in the opening? 🙄

[@ashleymoore9063]

It was supposed to be a world drought now it's a world flood .

[@magesalmanac6424]

You don’t understand the situation at all. From now on it will be one extreme or the other, there is no more “in between”

[@Onequietvoice]

When was it "supposed" to be a world drought? Who "supposed" that? The consistent and often repeated prediction was for an increase in extreme weather due to the changing climates. In case you had not noticed the world is a big place with many climate regions. You will continue to see more floods AND more droughts. You will also continue to hear dumbass denialism.

[@johntresemer5631]

😢

[@mikenichols3849]

They can't even take the time or care about something relatively small ike how to pronounce "alegre" it's just a story, a job for them. The story, the people enduring this tragedy will be forgotten in days if that. Our planet’s climate knows no geopolitical boundaries. A report issued just yesterday rather than data showing fossil fuel reductions, we hit a record high for global consumption. Humanity is speeding up towards our own species demise and we've no one to blame but ourselves, some significantly more than others.

[@SunyataFinca]

How to dilute a important conversation of catastrophic consequences ¿ talk about how football was affected.

[@judithmcdonald9001]

Everyone wants to go back. The great sadness of losing your place in the world.

[@user-em8vu7gb7u]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-dd7up6mf9g]

Shame better have a boat .God Bless them and their country. Praise GOD. .

[@JPREEDY77]

Sad part is that its inevitable for all peaks to erode into the valley below. Water will reclaim the Earth at some point. All land above sea level, unfortunately fits within the depths of the Ocean. Without plate uplift from impact extinction is INEVITABLE ! Talk about bleak!

[@Daddytime52]

I would say its an el nino warning. During el nino seasons the sound of brasil is always a disaster land slides floods etc.

[@ryanlane2503]

What Was Desert Will Become Ocean

[@rejaneflorinda6162]

People in that area are lucky it happened during President Lula's administration. If it was still Bolsonaro in the presidential office he would go there to test a new jet ski and leave people in desperate need, without having a second thought about the conditions of the citizens. And we can't forget the geography of the land. It is a flatter part of Brazil.

[@verysad2036]

This is terrible but I think it's earth building itself up again. Places that were dry will change to become lush again and on and on. We've seen it throughout history where a whole city moves from lack of water, too much water etc

[@rgclark1926]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@user-qd1zm6zm2m]

I don't know why the government won't tell people what going to happen ? So I'll tell you I live in Comanche county Oklahoma all my 63 winters tornado ally I have been praying and meditation to mother earth for all my life. so this is what I know more earth quiets and more wildfires droughts tornados flooding volcano think about it like this every day is worth than the last ! One half of the country will be flooded and tornado like f-15 f20 and the side droughts and wildfires so we need to be thinking about growing are own food for Americans !!!! Please believe me !! Share this then I tell more !

[@MyKharli]

Another climate porn post with no attack on the peoples behaviors causing this or even a mention of a sustainable carbon budget, incredible .

[@DanielWatson-vv7cd]

We got to quit building homes and businesses in FLOOD PLAINS.

[@leiladarling4495]

Ola

[@jeffreyk8875]

Oh, well, perhaps the BRICS nations can crowdfund some relief for them.

[@user-hr4gn7jk1b]

Olympic come soon in Paris you good player Brazil city

[@italilagu6501]

& California at 101 ° f 🔥

[@leemccabemccabe5627]

Hot as the SUN Wet like the RAIN Electric Dreams worldwide 🇬🇧 🗽 2024 🙏

[@fredericlewin721]

It is not just climate change! It is the duty of government at all levels to discourage building homes, businesses and nuclear plants just inches above the river. All dams eventually collapse. all levees are eventually overtopped by a record rainfall. There is plenty of high dry land available in most countries.

[@Pecisk]

There is not, most of such land is owned by rich people.

[@tobiasdossantosgomes4688]

I agree there's an strong government responsabilitiy but we are not jusr talking about homes and business inches above the rives. It's much more complex than that. Think about how much european cities are close to rivers too.

[@Onequietvoice]

The "lets pretend it is not real" monologue continues.

[@user-in7jw9ik4c]

No Dams....Huge rivers..lots of water..!!..,No Planning...??..To live near Rivers..??..

[@Onequietvoice]

The thing about unprecedented events is that they are unprecedented.

[@hamiltonwilliamdossantos9305]

Interesting reporting, but somehow misleading, as the Governor of Rio Grande do Sul and the Mayor of Porto Alegre are the true 'government', not Lula. In other words, their images and pictures and discourse should have been aired, not Lula's.

[@d_baumberger]

QUIT STRIPPING THE AMAZON BASIN OF THE JUNGLE

[@Earthisdivine]

Please, this is very bad, it is tasteless to make puns around a catastrophe. "We'll wade into just what that means... for those who are told their homes will never be rebuilt", made me want to stop watching. Whatever reporting aside, all eyes should be on the rapidity of the changing global climate.

[@laylaw9023]

Yess, I thought the was so inappropriate and downright ignorant.

[@cleberrenato429]

😢😥💔🙏✌🏻

[@user-hr4gn7jk1b]

Mental health with Doctors Mike

[@allenwarner6310]

You build near rivers and oceans and they will flood.

[@caterthun4853]

Wow..The BBC News is doing an item on climate warming. Wow, The BBC has recognised that global climate problems are real

[@rodfer5406]

But amazon is having water shortage?

[@Pecisk]

Having regular clean water and having deluge of rain is not same thing.

[@ashleymoore9063]

People used to build houses on stilts to avoid the floods for thousands of years or build houses on the top of mountains for a reason .

[@Onequietvoice]

That reason was not climate change because the climate was, until recently, mostly stable. I realise it suits a certain agenda to pretend this is nothing new when it obviously is.

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

And people have always farmed floodplains because they're fertile. We can't just move away from these problems. We can't just move farming belts northward. That's not how soil or ecology works.

[@user-cs1dt2xw4c]

Have a word with china, how many coal fired power stations, oh yes and the seed cloud stuffers

[@deong6289]

No not al all, people need to understand the effects of El Nino and La Nina and these cycles.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

😂😂😂

[@deong6289]

@@Jc-ms5vv I would be laughing to if you are dumb and ignorant.

[@nolaheart]

Katrina was a warning. It's here now

[@robertmuehlendyck7713]

Durrrr "Nope, no global warming here" durrrr

[@BombusMonticola]

Stupid bloody question of course it bloody well is when are you media lot gonna tell it as it is. Otherwise you're all just oil and gas industry accomplices

[@lindapindabelinda3570]

Don’t rebuild houses. Build houseboats.

[@rdallas81]

Build cemeteries. Because trouble is coming to the likes never experienced on earth.. The balance is ripped, people choose lust, pride and vanity over righteousness, and ALL will reap what they sow. Sow to the wind and reap the whirlwind

[@x1achilles99]

Is this really the BBC? It looks like it was filmed in someone's garage. Other than that this is a terrible Gaúcho tragedy.

[@TomE.P3977]

Usb?😂😂😂😂

[@lioncourt_ai]

After destroying the rainforest, what did they think was going to happen?? It was a SUPER BAD idea.