Persistent Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration. The record devastation in Rio Grande do Sul follows floods in the second half of last year, leading many of the 538,000 people now displaced from their homes to consider more extreme adaptations.

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1. Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives from inundated towns to rebuild on higher ground.
   Two weeks after the onset of torrential rains, the Guaiba River running by state capital Porto Alegre is rising again, having passed the all-time high.

   In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the streets of dozens of towns have turned into slow-moving rivers.

   Just in the area around Porto Alegre, where four rivers converge to form the Guaiba River, researchers estimate nearly 3,800 square km were flooded.

   That is more than the urban footprint of the Washington, D.C., metro area, which includes 10 counties in two adjacent states

2. The irony is that these poor people of the Rio Grande do Sul state voted nearly 60% for Bolsonaro in the 2022 presidential elections. I guess they will now realize that climate change isn’t a “hoax”…

3. Climate migration is not new. Scientists have been warning society about it for decades. Once it starts affecting individuals, they will certainly holler. If all carbon spewing industry stopped tonite, global warming and it’s effects would still continue.

   As it took time to cause climate change, it will take time to reduce the effects caused by mega pollution.