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Chaos during floods in brazil

www.aljazeera.com Brazil’s army is rescuing people stranded by deadly flooding

Flooding in Brazil has displaced more than 115,000 people and left close to 80 dead.

Brazil’s army is rescuing people stranded by deadly flooding

First and foremost, absolutely fuck fiscal austerity and laissez-faire, there is nothing natural about this, only consequence of shit political choices, such as scraping environment disaster prevention, basically no relief efford funding, global warming denial and shredding of environment protection laws.

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  • Some context for anyone wondering: this was absolutely preventable. The governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Eduardo Leite, knew this happens at this time of the year but not only did he not do anything, the investment in preventing this was basically null. A flood also happened last year and he did nothing too.

    One of the rivers rose up to 30 meters this time.

    After the flood this time around he resorted to Twitter to beg president Lula for help, which is absolutely weird and pathetic to do. Not only that, but now he is asking for donations to the state to help people. This could have been prevented or at the very least mitigated if there was proper funding.

    Hopefully there is a lot of groups there helping like MTST and people from all over the country are donating to different groups to help those in need right now.

    My heart goes out to everyone suffering because of the flooding right now, the number of desperate people I'm seeing on Twitter sharing pictures of people missing after the flood is absolutely devastating.

    Fuck Eduardo Leite and fuck capitalism.

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