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these other pictures are more recent, mostly from yesterday:

Rio Pardo, RS / Eldorado do Sul, RS

Canoas, RS

Porto Alegre, RS

The southern state of Brazil, my state, is literally underwater right now, thousands of people lost their homes, some died and some are missing due to heavy flooding. If you're in one of the affected areas, please be careful, pay attention to the news as some emergency numbers aren't working anymore, they're sharing new ones. Seek safe shelter, either with family members or the public ones. There's also a risk of dam failure, the Civil Defense is constantly updating on those, be aware to know when you have to evacuate the area. If you can help with donations or even sharing the news to get to more people, you're more than welcome. I'll leave some links showing how to help. Please be safe, it's a disaster out there! And no matter what your personal belief is, please pray for those people.

Civil Defense - To get updates on the situation

SC Internacional - To donate

Grêmio - To donate

Public shelter in Porto Alegre

The Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST) and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) are doing crowdfunding projects to help feed the displaced population in Rio Grande do Sul.

To donate you need to make an account on the website. It's rather quick to make an account, and your browser should be able to translate the website.

MTST's crowdfunding campaign

MST's crowdfunding campaign

Centro de Referência Indígena do RS: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6hfmHJOQjV/

Retomada Xokleng Konglui: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6hAaDCOLd7/

Ocupação Vila resistência: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6e7YK1uEqR/

Retomada Guarani Nhe'engatu: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6eAJjCuPbN/

Governo do Rio Grande do Sul

Doações nacionais/ National Donations Chave PIX: 92.958.800/0001-38 (CNPJ). Nome: SOS Rio Grande do Sul / Banco: Banrisul

Doações feitas fora do país

Zona do Euro / Euro Zone

Banco Standard Chartered Bank Frankfurt Swift: SCBLDEFX Conta: 007358304

Zona do Dólar / Dólar Zone

Banco Standard Chartered Bank New York Swift: SCBLUS33 Conta: 3544032986001

Para ambos os casos, é preciso informar:

Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.

i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.

and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.

three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.

this is not natural.

unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.

when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.

links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):

link for non-brazilians (paybox)

link for brazilians

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I comm'd @skeline to draw the silly gurl and a burga cause I really really love her

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