#rs floods

[ogamipukobye]

You have no idea the pain it is. I´ve lived 10 years in Rio Grande do Sul. My wife was born there. This beautiful pink building, a museum Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, is now flooded, to the second floor. #Rio Grande Do Sul

[melandtea]

"lrt"

My fandom connection really, really is yet again my source of sanity. I'm in the middle of the worst natural ecological disaster in the history of the country and everywhere I look the feeling of helplessness is indescribable. 75% of cities of the state are completely underwater due to massive rain and there's no forecast predicting to stop raining. Because of terrible political decisions (that honestly, could see all of them coming as well as many people, but actually living the bad decisions happen is much worse and maddening) we're basically on our own, the civil population is doing everything: rescuing, collecting donations, gathering information, organising shelter.

The most panic inducing part is that May isn't even a rainy season. It rains, alright, but it's supposed to be the easiest of the rainy seasons. September and February are much, much worse.

It's not even a matter of being prepared for the next one because there isn't a way to contain this amount of water. When I say cities are completely underwater I don't mean people are able to walk on it---I mean the light polls of public illumination are underwater. That's above the roof height of a normal one-floor house

We can't protect ourselves for the next one and the next one will happen. This is not something we can control because that's the consequences of decades of abusing natural resources and overheating the planet. It's 120% a consequence of global warming.

Did you know that one European baby already consumes more natural resources than an adult of an in development country? And then of course, because the global north has (all) the resources, they feel much lighter consequences. Meanwhile, we get the heavy rains.

But sure, continue to build your not-walkable cities so you can take your car to go cross the street. Continue to over produce food. Continue to explore global south countries for their resources, to buy foreign lands to burn the native ecosystem for monoculture, to take airplanes to travel 50km, to buy from big international franchises while ignoring local economy, to overconsume and posses more than you can store, to wrap every organic food in 3kg of plastic or big boxes, to produce as much trash as you could, to make a pollutant factory just to overprocess your food, to not consume your own natural resources, to demand out-of-season foods, to put poison in your plantations, to allow your governments to continue to not do anything about it, and to feed your billionaires. Because they aren't ours.

I'm fine, I'm safe. I have food, energy, water and even internet. For now, I live a relatively safe place.

It's just distressing to know there's absolutely nothing, zero things about this whole catastrophe that is in our reach of prevention because it's bigger, much much bigger than all of us together.

And that we won't even be news until somewhere in Europe or in the US get their own catastrophe.