Leonardo Sakamoto – The subject of the election should be rain that kills, not communism bullshit

Presidents and governors spend more time flying helicopters over buried bodies and denying that they can do nothing “because it’s raining more than average” than offering effective action to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Rio de Janeiro noted that 14 more people died in the last two days, as a result of the incompetence of public authorities in the face of the rains. In recent months, we’ve seen hundreds of bodies piled up in Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Rio itself, as was the case with the Petrópolis tragedy – these cases are becoming more frequent as the planet warms.

Politicians act in a palliative way by welcoming victims as if they were treating a hopeless patient. In this way, deaths from landslides and floods became part of the annual calendar like Carnival or New Year’s.

As voters’ memories will dry up in October, those who want to come to power or stay in power should be asked to say what they are planning to prevent such disasters while they are happening. Today this line is one of the first to lose resources in the budget when it comes to meeting the needs of the allies.

Unfortunately, some have no idea what to say. Or they avoid talking about unsound measures such as removing families from risk areas and relocating them to suitable locations, or the need to change the predatory behavior of sectors of the national business community from agriculture to exploitation and industry through industry. The real estate sector, which works with the logic of every human being for himself and, above all, for Allah.

We know that the President, who is the chief officer of the country, is the government’s plan to fight the Federal Supreme Court, but it says nothing about what it wants to do to reduce the risk of people dying underground.

To remove the population from one place in advance and relocate it to another in a decent and dignified manner; develop a community to prevent landslides; Enforce housing policies that build homes in non-risky locations; updating new risk areas research and developing withdrawal protocols; Adopting reasonable warning systems given days in advance are known actions to be taken by municipal, state and federal authorities, but are nevertheless overlooked.

Governments have ignored it in their planning studies that show that climate change is already impacting our pluviometric regime with certainty. Rather than effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions by tackling deforestation and preparing for the worst, it is preferable to pay the population the economic and social cost of this inadequacy, because the worse is yet to come.

Extreme events like this will not only continue and kill over the years, they will become more frequent. That doesn’t mean there won’t be major storms without global warming, but their frequency ranges from centuries or decades to years. Events that affect everyone but, more precariously, take mainly the lives of the poorest as they live in the worst places on the slopes of hills or in floodplains and valley floors.

Ironically, the only plans that have truly evolved in recent years have been the loosening of environmental laws (for example, to help heat stolen public land) and the smashing of laws and normative mandates held by lawmakers and senators in Congress. Ministry of Environment. Of course, not to mention the big project that will weaken the inspection, monitoring and control institutions like IBAMA and ICMBio.

The almost complete demise of Brazil’s environmental and climate policies is perhaps one of this government’s most serious flaws and one of the most damaging to the country in the long run. From scientists to nonprofits, including rational politicians, government technicians, and diplomats, to agriculturists, industrialists, and responsible investors, anyone with a focus on the issue knows that with an engaged government, everything will be difficult. But with the current situation, the prognosis is grim.

Unfortunately for a significant portion of the electorate, it is unimportant that hundreds of people die, are buried or drowned every year, and tomorrow there could be thousands.

What matters is that the candidates pledged to fight the Communist threat from the left-wing billionaire-funded Knights Templar to promote pedophilia, the attempt to implant Chinese 5G chips in our brains to read our thoughts, the teachers who teach students. Being gay and lesbian, in short, is illogical.