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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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[–] mihies@kbin.social 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 9 points 10 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 4 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

Bloody Africa, not providing any data.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And who knows what Greenland's up too 🤨

[–] Xyloph@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

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