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It's official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There's already reports of power outages. People can't work. They can't run errands. They can barely sleep. It's not even summer there yet.

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[-] F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

They actually said this would happen.

And yet, we go directly to our graves.

It seems we want to be dead.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 9 points 11 months ago

It's a prisoner's dilemma; you'll be dead even faster if you're the first to fight back.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Look to the people who said this. They are calling for revolution, I think we have to start seriously organizing for it this time.

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 56 points 11 months ago

World News

Brazil

Still uses F first

Wat

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 8 points 11 months ago

Royal Society fellow Daniel Fahrenheit consents to the use of his preluding temperature scale.

[-] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Fucking Murika making shit harder for everyone

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah like I don't know how many swimming pools worth of heat it is

[-] mihies@kbin.social 52 points 11 months ago

Yeah, let's burn some more rain forest and see whether it helps.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It definitely doesn't help but it's not the reason either

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That graph has nothing to do with sequester rates, which is what forests are about.

Forests are a big part of the issue and we need to preserve them.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Damn, sounds like people should consume less of the soy, meat and minerals produced in that area.

By the way, do you happen to know what happened to the 400 million acres in Europe and 300 million acres in the US that used to be forest in the 1800s?

[-] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Yep, climate change was super well known then too, fantastic point 👍

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Very convenient for those countries that they get to keep all the economic benefit from deforestation and be among the biggest emitters while the people doing what they also did get snide comments implying they deserve to live in conditions unsuitable for humans because of the evils they're doing

[-] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

What do you propose then? Make European countries accoutable for mistakes made 200 years ago? Even though most of them are doing really well to transition into green energy? What would that accomplish, exactly?

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That would be a good first step, yes.

[-] FreshProduceAndShit@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

tax them, distribute the money to the global south. Less disposable income means less consumption, and those funds can be put to use building a green economy in the developing world.

[-] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No one on this planet currently had anything to do with any of this, we actually live in year 2023 where we know the consequences of those decisions so why the does that mean we can should make the same mistakes they made hundreds of years ago…they didn’t know any better, we do so we have to do better. Is that fair? No. Is that the hand we were dealt? Unfortunately yes.

We can either whine and justify doing the same shit over and over or we can be better and utilize the knowledge we now have and a choose a more responsible route.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ah, yes, the fuck you got mine approach. That's a great climate strategy. Also how the consequences of colonialism, imperialism and slavery have been solved, so you know it's means-tested.

[-] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

If you’re not going act rational, you can’t solve any problems big or small. Climate change is a big one, if you burn down your forests it will worsen climate issues in your country. You have sovereignty to do so, but it ultimately hurts your progress as well as damages the global effort to address the effects of the changing climate.

[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

What is extremely sad is that Brazil has relatively very low emission and consumption rates

The rich dicks around, the poor pays the price

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Per capital sucks for these stats but the rainforest isn’t about contributing CO2 it’s about capturing it

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Bloody Africa, not providing any data.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

And who knows what Greenland's up too 🤨

[-] Xyloph@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Burn forest, plant fields, too hot for fields, .. ., no profits!

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

What the fuck? I didn’t realize Brazil was going full oven mode

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

That can be as low as 34C, with 90% humidity. I'm not trying to make it less of a problem, just trying to tune the clickbait down from 11.

Fuck humidity though. I can't stand it.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Ok, 42.5 I wouldn't personally survive in any humidity. My suffering season starts when it hits 28 outside.

[-] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Coming from a place that sees -40c to +40c almost every year, I can confirm this is not clickbait

Shit I worked with a guy from Oklahoma and mid August we were working near Toronto (Ontario) and he couldn't take the heat and it was only 30 without the humidity.

That shit ain't no joke

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

As someone who feels 34 is as hot as I can handle it and it only qualifies if there is a fuckton of humidity Ill take the bait.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All hail market capitalism!

Turns out muh free market IS the solution to all human crises.

Can't have human crises without humans, after all.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thanks for the comment. It said everything I think and I won't have to rewrite the same thing.

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 12 points 11 months ago

Human blood should start cooking at 60°C if I remember well.

[-] mino@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

How the fuck did this article go from heat in Brazil to long covid research without any fucking bridge 🥲

I mean, I somewhat agree with the points its making and I'm heavily doubting the validity. When someone is not willing to further their own confirmation bias you really need to start asking questions.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

It's November tho...Does Brazil not have a winter?

[-] RavenFellBlade@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

Southern Hemisphere. It's late spring there.

[-] swope@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

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[-] Linnce@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Winter in Brazil if from june to september, but honestly though it feels like there is one or two weeks of cold and the rest is just as hot as any day. I remember a year where I didn't wear long sleeved shirts or coats at all.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Anyone read Ministry of the Future

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