Monday, June 1, 2009

The World's biggest natural disaster

Watching the news we can notice how crazy our world is right now. Not just the people, which is getting even crazier every second, but our wild world.

Brazil has never been a country profoundly affected by natural disasters. Some people say the people in here are our real disaster. We can agree with it in some degrees, if we consider all the corruption at our government, and how this “corrupted” examples affects all our culture. At least this is one plausible explanation why such a naturally rich country like Brazil hold all this poverty... (Of course, besides it has all the past exploitation in here among other things)

But these last days all we can watch on the news are bizarre natural disasters. Brazil’s north and northeast, a very, very hot place, historically affected by drought, is suffering of flood, excess of rain (for us, it sounds really weird). And Brazil’s south, the coldest part of the country, which 7 months ago suffered a really big catastrophe because of the flood that made hundreds of family to lost their houses, is now suffering of drought!
What is more frightening is that this inundation at our north and northeast is even worst than the one that happened on the south (though it has less media appeal for some reason).

Those are some clear examples of how the global warming is directly affecting our lives (and our deaths).
Where will that end? (in the end of the world? In the end of most coast cities?)
What have we been doing to change this?
Nothing. Nothing compared to what it means to us, on how it affects us.
How many times did you choose to go to work on your bike or walking to don’t collaborate with the increase of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere?

For some governments, taking action to change this destiny we are heading to is not even discussed because of the economic impact it would cause. It would make most of the countries to loose enormous amounts of money. I wonder if they make the math of how much it costs all the disasters we are having, and all the lives that are being lost, compared to what it would cost to collaborate to change the course we have been taking.
With this idea, we can see why they don’t make much to properly inform the population as well. If they invested the same amount of energy they invested to inform about the new flu, I’m sure it would make a really big difference.

Yes, we really are the world’s biggest natural disaster. But some time all of us will have to understand that without life there is no money, no economy at all.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

daí um dia eu ví um cara falando que é até bom chover assim no nordeste pq lá falta muita água.(silêncio)