Brazilians choke as fire smoke blankets 80% of country

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240930-brazilians-choke-as-fire-smoke-blankets-80-of-country

10 Comments

  1. I remember when this happened on the east coast from the Canadian fires. It was surreal trying to walk anywhere with the burning in your eyes or nose.

  2. A small indicator of how bad things are. According to the article many regions in the country don’t have the be necessary equipment to even measure air quality. From the article:

    > In one of the biggest hospitals in the capital Brasilia, the number of patients treated for respiratory problems in recent days was more than 20 times higher than usual.

  3. Jazzlike_Art6586 on

    Same goes for Bolivia. Horrible times.
    The lung of our earth is burning in the name of capitalism

  4. The worlds largest rainforest is mostly on fire? Man, im glad global warming isn’t real, or we’d be *screwed*

  5. Rachel_from_Jita on

    The smell of wildfire smoke will be the defining smell for much of the world in the coming decades. And having experienced living near wildfire smoke for almost two years before, it’s very hard on the health, mood, and sense of hope.

    We must change course to something other than oil and coal companies ruling us with an iron fist and poisoning all public debates and information.

  6. Yep the world has always has yearly firestorms that cover half the planet in smoke this is 100% normal nothing to see here all is well won’t look up.

  7. Irregular_Person on

    80%?? Holy shit. I think a lot of people don’t realize how big Brazil is.. That’s *wild*