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Já previ isso a muito tempo, esse liberalismo vai destruir o sul do país

Good luck Brazil 💚

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@@Ter9393 this is why nob0dy likes you.

@@Ter9393 people like you here wasting oxygeen while there are hgorse drowing in farms in rio grande do sul. life is not fair.

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Thank you.

Y'all deal with worse natural disasters even thx

@@splashnskillz37 and?? What’s your point?

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Its because the rainforest is destroyed.

​@@geddinixan255amazon is about 3.000 miles from that state. It's closer to the US than it is to that state. Don't say things you have 0 knowledge about because that's quite embarrassing for you

@@geddinixan255 go study bae

@@ent.8979 Sorry to disapoint you, but Brasil is like a caldron, with two main rain inputs. One comes from equatorial Atlantic, the other from south Atlantic. Their flows and wind currents depend on how hot is Brazilian interior. If southeast is too hot, the flows are interrupted and all the rain coming from south stops in the southern region, accumulating there. Amazon rainforest provides moisture to mitigate the hotweather in the central regions of Brasil. Less moisture, means hotter weathers. So, everything here is connected, but aggravated by both El Nino and climate changes.

@@Rhiow_ i did one semester of agricultural ecology besides other classes. Another factor are dams. What did you study?

Brazil must love the country of Israel. This is the result if Brazil hates Israel and defends Hamas

me too,lol from england

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Its because end times is near. Be warn and read the bible then look at the current society.

​@@ArleneGonzales-pe4jbReally, the Great Wizard? 🤣

Kenya too

Its because of deforestation and intensive agriculture. Soil when intact is supposed to soak up water and not being washed away like dead dust. And dams, i forgot about those damn dams.

​​@@ArleneGonzales-pe4jbpossible, its the first time happening globally. It happened before in much smaller scales. I.e. while the egyptian pyramids were built 20% of the rainforest turned into desert. Or whilst the roman empire there were so many ships built that forests vanished causing the mediterranian hot temperatures peaking. Bible at least warns us about that from my understanding.

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And unfortunately there's a whole line of wealthy people lined up to make as much money as possible off of this. It's called Disaster Capitalism. You can make a lot of money off peoples' pain, and they do it globally.

​@@cyan1616 lol "disaster capitalism"... sure, everything would be better if we were communists, right? 🤡

​@@cyan1616One of the largest companies in Brazil, AMBEV, is stopping production of its main product, beer, to produce water and send it to the victims of this immense flood in the Brazilian state. capitalism is really evil.

Check the maps projection for Brazil with the rise of ocean levels, Santa Catarina should go under water in 30 years, this is way worse then the flood of 41, and is just the beginning. . Scientists not only predicted this in a 2015 report, but also reiterated in 2019 report.

@@cyan1616 It doesn't work that way in Brazil. A catastrophe like that is very undesirable, because these same wealthy people are aligned with the government, and since the government is not doing anything satisfactory, this will greatly descrease the government popularity and state moral (since this catastrophe came to prove how useless the government and the state are), and the great fortunes don't like unpopularity.

Agora é unido né? Até pouco tempo os Sulistas pediam indepedência do Brasil.

O Brasil nunca foi um povo! estamos sendo povo agora pela primeira vez. Sempre foi cada um por si.

Quem realmente está ajudando é o povo, o governo não serve para nada.

@@DePaulo6699 sabe d nada.

@@paulobotafogo89 Me ensina então, sabidão. Oque os governos brasileiros fizeram, mesmo sabendo dos riscos, que já haviam sido previstos anos antes?

All major cities in the world are built near rivers for obvious reasons. When people settle, the first thing they need is water.

Falou tudo nosso país e dividido em tudo

Parte do desastre poderia ter sido atenuado com a manutenção das barragens cujos órgãos estão desmontados segundo técnicos da área

Don't worry politicians are corrupt everywhere. Even in Australia they build houses on flood plains on purpose.

Is the biggest inundation since 1941. The walter is taking over central áreas, comercial, historical, fancy neighborhoods, not just unplanned neighborhoods

@_MarianaSilva_ 😢 😢😢 just wanted to say that I am praying for everyone there because of this devastating flood. And the great loss that is happening right now. I will pray everyday in hopes that people will unite together in prayer. And take things one day at a time remembering that there isn’t anything impossible with God Almighty. And the power of prayer 🙏

Yeah Brazilian president don't care about RS people

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From 31, only 3 deputies sent cash to enviromental disasters to the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Search for their parties. Right parties didn't made nothing, just watched what was predicted

@@TobiasOliveira685 Você acha que o Bozo tem o poder de parar a chuva, é isso mesmo?

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Exactly. I can only add that he just forgot to mention the governor. Not every measure he mentions was a national government issue. He could have talked about the money (not) invested by the State in flooding prevention even after the floods last year.

This report is one of the best I've seen, covers the most important issues and reinforces the fact that it's not over, this is ongoing and progressing! Most talk about the reconstruction after the floods.

Pois é, e ainda teve gente comentando aqui que o governo federal estava fazendo muito pelo RS enviando ajuda de todo o Brasil... É mole?

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@@Angella21 Os helicópteros mostrados no video transportando ajuda são de onde então? >>> 37,5 mil profissionais mobilizados do governo federal.

@@paulomuller7269 helicópteros do governo federal? Tá bom 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 e esses 37 mil profissionais tão onde será? Pq na rua só se vê quase civis. Vai chamar o Cabrini tbm de mentiroso? Acorda, Alice!

@@Angella21 As imagens ds helicópteros estão no próprio video da DW.

Man hands changing the weather

Governo Lula não está fazendo nada demais, demorou uma semana pra liberar dinheiro e comida, quem mais salva pessoas é o próprio povo gaúcho, o número de militares enviados é ridículo pelo tamanho da tragédia, fora a mídia manipuladora que está tentando esconder que o povo civil é quem mais ajuda e salva vidas

Esse desastre é resultado de uma sequência de anos de falta de cuidados com as questões ambientais do Brasil todo...Se for para apontar culpados, vamos culpar pelo menos os últimos 5 presidentes junto com os últimos 5 governadores! Tu é brasileiro (como eu) e sabe bem que o governo anterior só potencializou algo que já acontece há anos... De qualquer forma desejo muita força para vocês nesse pior momento da história do estado e que a reconstrução seja rápida e sadia!

Isso é resultado de 18 anos de governo do PT no poder

​@@MoisesMuniz96o comentário anterior foi preciso, exato!

147 cities flooding

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Reallly I don't think they can do anything about it other than wait

Someplaces it reached the record of 5 meters. Unbelievable.

Yep, this is an state issue rather than a national one; things only got this bad cause the local government wasn’t and still isn’t properly using the funds available.

I was going to say exactly that. He didnt prepared so well for this interview.

@luiz576 😢😢😢 just know that I am remembering you all in my prayers everyday. I can’t imagine how devastating and difficult this is for countless people. May God bless you all with the strength and guidance you need in order to continue helping others. I will keep praying 🙏

@@lisanunez1225 Thank you!! There are a lot of positive things too: as I said, all country and the local people are fully mobilized. And today, I visited the place where there are some 500 hundred people in my daughter school, and all seemed organized and in a good vibe. Heard about other place, in a University, in our town, where 6000 people are staying, and everything is going well too.

Glad to hear back from you and that there is positive news that you are seeing there. Hopefully soon you all will be able to receive the emergency aid that you need and see the blessings God is providing through other sources. There is power in prayer of the Holy scriptures that will give you Hope and Encouragement 🙏

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@@TobiasOliveira685 o que menos precisamos é esse tipo de coisa. Vergonha por ti.

I dont know if we should still call it El Niño. Maybe we should call it El Adulto.

El Niño usualy dries Brazil, specially in the northern region, even increasing the fires in the amazon region, the southern region is usually "untouched" by it, what happend is that when El Niño ceased, La Niña started and it is the opposite of it, the surface of the pacific gets a lot colder changing wind direction affecting the climate of the southrn cone of the continent, which brings a lot of unseasoned rain and colder weather and even the north gets a bit colder with it.

It is more than ele niño. El niño is natural phenomenon that exists for centuries.

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Haarp, artificial rain

I live in one of the affected cities, and an elderly neighbor was found dead still hugging the tree he climbed to survive the flood.

@@edu2428 Meus sentimentos mano, fique bem e proteja se

​@@splashnskillz37 Brazil must love the country of Israel. This is the result if Brazil hates Israel and defends Hamas

@@edu2428 Espero que você esteja bem, acabamos de carregar agora de manhã um caminhão 7 eixos com, sei lá, umas 40 toneladas de água. Espero que chegue para quem está precisando.

Essa história da criança boiando não foi confirmada.

Com a esquerda com certeza, já com a direita bem... será? A verdade inconveniente é que o governo esquerdista podia ser tão ordin@rio quanto o governo anterior, mas não está, como por exemplo na crise da Covid19 que lembrando teve mais de meio milhão de mortos, onde discursos populistas e o negacionismo contribuíram indiretamente para o agravamento da crise no país, ou das enchentes na Bahia onde vídeos divulgados nas redes sociais escancaravam o total desprezo e preconceito que o ex-presidente sempre teve com o povo nordestino porque obviamente sabia que nunca foi popular nessa região, mas vivemos em um país livre e vc é livre para achar o que quiser, 🤷‍♂️🤝.

Com a esquerda com certeza, já com a direita bem... será? A verdade inconveniente é que o governo esquerdista podia ser tão ruim quanto o governo anterior, mas não está, como por exemplo, na crise da Covid19 que lembrando teve mais de meio milhão de mortos, onde discursos populistas e o negacionismo contribuíram indiretamente para o agravamento da crise no país, ou das enchentes na Bahia onde vídeos divulgados nas redes sociais escancaravam o total desprezo e preconceito que o ex-presidente sempre teve com o povo nordestino porque obviamente sabia que nunca foi popular nessa região, mas vivemos em país livre e vc é livre para achar o que quiser 🤷‍♂️🤝.

indeed

Agreed

Solar storms affect the whole planet. Also in Texas.

Don't know bout the rest of the world but in Germany we have maps for it. But people often didn't care enough. Also, those maps are based on data which does not include the increased air temperature. In the 21 flood in my area century old houses vanished.

We don't even have zoning laws, brother. This wouldn't have happened in a sane country KEKW

The whole state is under the water.

They knew it, they counted on their tax paid government to protect their capital from such floodings given the prior warnings from scientist that study the area due to prior floods, that were much less severe than this one. If you lived your hole life in a city and nothing like this happens to this extent, you just stay there, this isn't a single area that is prompt for flooding, it's state wide, many cities are completely covered in water up to the roof of houses, some are partially covered and lost electricity and water treatment, bridges have collapsed isolating parts of the state. It's utter disaster. Worst of all, is winter is approaching in the southern hemisphere as summer reaches the northern hemisphere, which means that according to the climate predictions for the week, it will be 10 degree Celsius by wendsday, the people without electricity in flooded areas will freeze to death if they aren't rescued or if the area isn't completely fixed by then.

that area is not a flood plain, this is an unprecedented event, never in known history has it rained so much in such short time. it's an effect of climate change.

I came to the conclusion that most people are unable to understand a non linear function. They are unable to understand that things speed up. That will cost manymore lives.

It's not like Russian roulette, I disagree. Russian roulette is basically unpredictable, matter of chance. Here the results are predictable, and even more - predicted. Scientist were warning for decades - DO NOT cut down the raiforest. Nobody listened.

Agreed!!!

The world needs to unite because this change affects everyone, it's only a matter of time who gets hit the worst.

​@@MeneTekelUpharsinlol a lot of powerful people thank you for your cooperation.

The last flood with such magnitude happened in 1941. This just proves that climate didn't change since then.

You can't give up on hope man believe what Hannah Richie Rich preaches!

@@Real46 Lets see next year.

Ok..when the frequency of flooding becomes annually come back and say that again.​@@Real46

No, it is a lack of minimum prevention infrastructure.

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Please, by all means bring your expertise here and build. Your country and all the developed world get rich by heating the earth and by the resources of the colonies. It's not time to payback?

Porto Alegre metro has more than 100km of dikes. The capital alone has 16 pluvial pumps. The rain was severe.

Certamente você não está tentando comparar A extensão do Brasil com a Holanda . Provavelmente o número de diques construídos no Brasil para prevenir alagamentos e enchentes deve superar dezenas, talvez centenas de vezes O número de holandeses construído com o mesmo objetivo . Obviamente não com a mesma sofisticação , com rodovias e ciclovias sobre as estruturas, até porque a natureza das inundações No Brasil, na maioria das vezes é fluvial. Enquanto a Holanda enfrenta o problema de estar abaixo do nível do mar. Certamente os governos federal estadual poderiam fazer melhor. mas comparar essa questão com a construção de edifícios e estádios de futebol é uma ingenuidade que parte de um estereótipo que não é verdadeiro.

Build dyks or dikes? dikes a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea. Get your mind out of the gutter!

Na Argentina e no Uruguai acho q só 1 cidade foi afetada

Yeah, to never vote on the Left again(since the governor is from PSDB, a leftist party).

yea, right on point. I got the impression the "journalist" was trying hard to blame the Federal Government in some way, but without seeming too obviously critical. Maybe he thought he could make it seem like this mess is Lula's responsibility to fix since he'd be speaking mainly to foreigners who don't know how Brazil's federative units work... or maybe he just expressed himself poorly. Either way he may have conveyed the wrong message to the audience

Você acha que em 8 meses iria fazer algo? Vc acha que o Brasil é um Japão da vida, iria levar anos para fazer algo descente e não meia boca, seja honesto, não seja puxa saco de ladrão

É claro que o Governo Federal pode até não ser culpado por um desastre natural. No entanto foi o que menos ajudou. Liderados pelo maior corrupto que este país já viu, não esperávamos mais desse bando de incompetentes que formam o governo. A maior parte dos esforços foi a própria população que providenciou.

What a lie. Federal is doing nothing because they have no money… corruption is killing Brazil again

Time to become a prepper.

This is the core of the problem. People are surprised. Nobody told them, what they should have found out themselves before. Founding an existence on flood sediments means to build on a ground that has been flooded extensively. Of course, we can't blame all those who already have been born in an environment like this. And I also admit that we would have to give up lots and lots of scarce living space if we would try to avoid all dangers. Water is just one of those threats.

Would it rain less if he hadn't done this?

Ohhhh please 🤦‍♀️

Like it or not, it is true. 93% (CCEE 2023) of our energy comes from clean, renewable sources. My state alone, in the Northeast, is responsible for the largest production of wind energy in the country.

Brazil has the fastest deforestation ratio worldwide...Brazil should pay fine to united nation for worldwide natural disaster

Most of the countries are guilty including Brazil. Point the finger at develop countries won't fade away the floods and the global hunger.

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The trees are all underwater. What Brazil needs is infrastructure, that's all.

​@@westleah5000NO, what it needs is STOP ABUSING THE PLANET!!!! You still dont see it, do you?!? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Nonsense. Take a look at the map of Rio Grande do Sul and you will see that the area of the rainfall is mostly forests.

you know nothing about Brazil. Half the state is underwater, including your beloved forests

You are so wrong. Many many trees and forests were all submerged. Many forests are totaly under water.

Mass migration is already taking place in the region. Soon they will start arriving in other cities, because they have lost everything. It's an old infrastructure problem, but now the rains are more frequent.

Only after it becomes an inconvenience for the rich, as it usually goes.

That is a good point you raising.

actually deforestation in the amazon would decrease such floods, i kid you not

Peddling lies. Sorry. Soil absorbs a lot of water. And plants and trees root themselves in it keeping it solid and in place. We need diversity back to our planet. ​@felipemurta9160

@@dlkdyscot the amazon rainforest is 3.000 miles /5.000 km away from Rio Grande do Sul state. how could it absorb the water from the floods in the south of Brazil?

@@lauralemon4890 I'm giving you a basic principle of how water and plants work In nature. Vast expanses of places that are natural do more good than you can imagine for our living earth.

I misunderstood your original comment. Yes we need to repair damage sooner the better there really is no time to deny or twiddling of fingers. Its economics that's killing us, the poorest Nations encouraged to take from nature what the Europeans already extinguished in their own land.

exactly. no global warming..... just earth cycles. in 1870 also happens similar level of water in Porto Alegre.

@@x.trailcwb1546 the global warming is a fact. it's not posible to deny that.

@@x.trailcwb1546 It is clear that there is global warming. Look at the temperature averages globally.

as chuvas daqui do Brasil são muito fortes msm que tenha projetos não irá ser o suficiente pra conter elas

half the state is underwater, including rural areas

Have you heard of the Netherlands?

Let's not cast our eye away from Brazil. They need help now, from BRICS

NYC did flood recently. So did many coastal cities.

The true.

And impervious clay soil deprived of forestation that helps with drainage..

Liberalismo na prática, tá seguindo o rumo do Haiti

@@generalbenjaminarrola340 O Haiti é tudo menos liberal e capitalista. E é justamente por isso que é pobre.

this has absolutely nothing to do with poor infrastructure. This only shows that people have built in lower places than they should

Nonsense. Take a look at the map of Rio Grande do Sul and you will see that the area of the rainfall is mostly forests. No forests will absorb that amount of water, and the areas flooded are the low ground ones.

Rainforest in a subtropical grassland? Are you kidding, right?

Vamos sair dessa,creiamos.🙏

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​@@TobiasOliveira685😂😂

We have enough experts in Brazil, thanks.

Don't boo Vote blue 😃

sadly people won't save the planet. they could, but they won't. and it's incredibly sad, because we could save it now, but there's nowhere near enough people who care. people either don't care, or they think it's a joke because they are always so used to seeing memes online everyday so they associate everything as a joke.

This flood came to prove how useless are the government and the state in preventing and in doing something about this whole situation. This is a terrible shame!

Isso não é o Brasil, isso é o mundo. Lugar nenhum está preparado pra lidar com desastres dessa magnitude. Fora que é muito caro e se daqui a dez anos algum governador quiser investir em infraestrutura contra enchentes pode apostar que o povo vai reclamar que não estão investindo em estradas ou em hospitais, é sempre assim.

​​@@thevinisovejo diversos países tomando medidas de precaução, só ver que a china criou ate cidades esponja. O Japão tem predios anti terremotos e por aí vai! Não tente passar pano para a clara ineficiência do estado brasileiro que nada faz por nós. Só ver que os dados e alertas dos cientistas foram ignorados.

Meu Deus, nem numa tragédia dessa vocês não perdem a oportunidade de dar crédito a essa entidade demoníaca que é o governo. É um sadomasoquismo diabólico impossível de entender. Parece que a preocupação é só em validar o voto que fez.

I agree. ! The government is doing it's best . They can't do a miracle in 2 days....!!

Não foi isso que vi no telegram

E desde quando telegram é lugar de fonte confiável? Hahahha​@@tatianaromanov7689

BHA!!!!!!!!!! bota apoio nisso

That's it!!!

Dilma vetoed a major infrastructure project for the Taquari-Guaíba basin in 2010 to lack of money.

exactly

@@westleah5000 We had 14 years since then to do something about that, but no one did anything.

@@theviniso Building mega smart engineering projects would be very expensive, it would be easier to move cities. And building the cities in other places is what they will. Government officials don't care about people, the more poor people drown, the fewer people they will need to compensate.

Perhaps not... Pure infraestructure problem.

Rio Grande do Sul is nowhere near the Amazon rainforest…

@@guntz-nga Florida is closer to Amazonia than Rio Grando do Sul.

Not dumping CO2 into the atmosphere holds rain out of the ski. We were advised of this in the 1970s and earlier. Its no secret what's happening everywhere. Trees are good too, everywhere...

@@guntz-nga That may well be the case - but a country with a record of this one exacts a hefty price on the ecology in so many other ways. Brazil seems to value money over stewardship when it comes to the biosphere.

Few countries are innocent in their destruction of nature

Most of the people there will return and rebuild the same way and hope it doesn't happen again

Brazil needs infrastructure aid from BRICS-of which its a member. This has happened before in the country, but the infrastructure hasn't improved...as the report point out

Also, But this is just one of several problems.

@@icu17siberia We don't need foreign aid here. We have enough resources to deal with this. And Brazil should stay away from this BRICS.

Nonsense. Take a look at the map of Rio Grande do Sul and you will see that the area of the rainfall is mostly forests.

More trees? I think you don't know Brazil. In any city there are more trees than your entire country