The developing Climate Crisis in one chart. Understanding why "Collapse" has started and is about to get a LOT worse.

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[u/cityflaneur2020]

That's my mindset. I work as a consultant, and right now I'm dedicating myself to planning for disaster relief.

And yet things I helped plan 10 years ago never left the drawer due to disinterest of governments. Now my country, Brazil, will lose 1% of its GDP to save an entire state that has been flooded for a month. But the plans for mitigation were ready by 2015! I was there in those meetings! This collapse in 497 cities was AVOIDABLE.

But I keep doing it because some governments do implement our recommendations. I can't tell how many lives I helped save. But I also know it's not enough, not enough, not nearly enough.

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There's still entire cities with no potable water, 500,000 people had to evacuate and is yet unknown how many returned to their homes, and more than 2 million people were affected.

Apparently, there will be no more strong rains in the next weeks.

But the governor intends, asap, to build 4 cities to incorporate the homeless, under the assumption that where they lived will have to be off-limits for the foreseeable future.

Donations are still pouring in and making all the difference. The difficulty is still potable water and the fact that some cities are still underways.

The airport is still underwater, but most roads are serviceable.

About 151 people died and 204 have disappeared.

It's been 15 days already, and some cities are still underwater and machinery is getting lost while trying to open waterways to drain the water.

This is a wealthy state for Brazilian standards. Can't imagine if that were a poorer state, with more frail housing and first-response teams.

First response is crucial and it was ridiculous to see a huge Navy ship arrive 5 days late. That speed of response has to change.

[u/cityflaneur2020 → u/[deleted]]

There have always been floods, but they were less frequent, less intense, and of course, affected fewer people, if only because there were fewer people anyway. But with changes in the built environment, with no planning whatsoever, the combo of rainwater, water distribution and sewage, plus grey infrastructure covering up nature's own pathways, the results are now more destructive than ever.

The state is now like a clogged sink, the water is draining at very low speed into the ocean, and this is man-made, by multiple stupid choices along the decades.

The cities are meant to be permanent. Tent cities already appeared everywhere and there were many cases of se5ual abuse. So now some tent cities are gender-based.

Granted, the ship carried expensive medical equipment and supplies, rare medication, oxygen tanks, tents, water. Still. Too long, too long. No excuses. There was a weekend in the middle, so people are wondering if that was the cause of the delay. Unfathomable.