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everyone please read this and share if you can.

Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.

i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.

and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.

three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.

this is not natural.

unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.

when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.

links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):

link for non-brazilians (paybox)

link for brazilians

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will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.

❗️NEW RELIABLE DONATION LINKS❗️

LINK - fundraiser by @badincolono on instagram, accepts donations in dollar and euro. we have reached 14mi out of 25mi!

LINK - cozinhas solidárias, to feed the people affected by the floods. also accepts international donations through a paypal linked in the page.

please share and consider donating if you can. $5 is around R$25 for us and it already helps so much.

again, thanks so so much for sharing. i wasn't expecting to reach this many people and i couldn't be more thankful for it. thank you, truly.

Hi this is the state I'm from as well!! Here ar some more links, please please share and donate if you can!

International donations:

Doações nacionais:

It's still raining in many parts of the state, but at the capital and metropolitan region it has stopped or now. That being said, the weather forecast predictions say it'll start raining again towards the middle of the week, which is not enough time for most of the water o go down. Plus the weather should get colder.

Here's the forecast for the capital city, Porto Alegre, towards the end of next week:

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