State of emergency: Once-in-a-century drought in Amazon

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State of emergency: Once-in-a-century drought in Amazon
weatherandradar.com
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Oh, look. Another once-in-a-lifetime disaster event. Aren't we lucky...

Good news everyone! Lifetimes will automatically be adjusted to ensure these events will remain "once in a lifetime".

Wait, that's not good news at all

Who's lifetime have we measuring this off of? Because it seems like we keep picking short-lived people. Maybe they are being killed by these disasters, which create somewhat of a paradox.

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Can't wait to read this headline twice a year for the rest if my life.

Then we get to wait for the real once in a lifetime event.

Which is extinction.

Maybe, just maybe, Brazil shouldn't keep chopping down rainforest to extract iron/oil and grow soybean/chicken/cow? Brazil needs to rapidly industrialized their economy because resource exploitation is clearly unsustainable.

Recently, Chinese companies have started to rapidly expand their Brazilian manufacturing footprint, but it's not enough.

expand their Brazilian manufacturing footprint

Wouldn't the low cost raw material extracted from the forests be a factor responsible for this?