Every year, communities across parts of Brazil who live in housing located along the steep hills of mountainous areas such as the Serrana Region along with other communities of people who live in areas that are more downstream, such as Paranapanema River in Sao Paulo, suffer heavy rains which in many cases cause flooding and landslides which have in turn caused an ongoing repeat in fatalities across many of these areas in Brazil, alongside of many having to face other serious issues such as food insecurity, reoccurring displacement and a rise in water born diseases from the overflow of poor sanitation amidst extremely damaged and weather beaten housing infrastructure over the years; mainly due to ongoing weather flux intensity attributed to Climate Change.

In February of this year in (2022), heavy rains attributed to Climate Change, caused a major landslide in the residential area of Morro da Oficina in Petropolis Brazil, resulting in over a hundred and seventy plus fatalities.

For many, May of this year also brought heavy rains followed by flooding and landslides that once again hit communities such as those living in the Pernambuco area of Recife; along with several other areas of Brazil that also suffered extensive rainfall, flooding, and landslides and which caused even more fatalities, besides also resulting in thousands of people to loose their homes, and suffer high levels of displacement.

Although types of local disaster measures have been put into place, such as warning sirens in order to alert people of an oncoming flood/hazard (i.e where to run in the midst of a majorly catastrophic mudslide), it is becoming increasingly apparent that better Natural Disaster Risk Management Practises should be put into place for these communities who are otherwise going to have to face even more weather flux acceleration brought about by such increasingly hazardous weather conditions attributed to Climate Change, in the way of better and safer housing infrastructure, which should be implemented not only on a local/regional level; but on an International scale also; and which should be undertaken from not simply a contractual viewpoint, but also from a viewpoint of good workmanship and humanity, with a view towards being able to provide a better quality of housing infrastructure for these communities who live in places such as the areas mentioned across Brazil, whereby the basics are included; such as better water drainage and sanitation, more secure roofing and flooring along with proper plumbing and access to fresh tap water.

(As some of you already know, many of the fresh water rivers have been polluted with the ongoing problem of Industrial Toxic Waste Pollution).

The accelerated Climatic effects of floods and mudslides in themselves contribute to well over half of all reoccurring climatic disasters across various regions of Brazil which also happen to include a large number of some of the poorest areas.

It must be remembered that these struggling communities of people have not received major help in the way of a more adequate and self-sustainable future; alongside of an additional and reoccurring problem that faces them; which is that for many decades, a large number of good people in these communities have repeatedly been relegated (i.e zoned) into having no other option (or means)…but to build for themselves, upon geologically hazardous i.e high risk areas of poorer foundational land upon which to build in the first instance.

Whilst the forces of nature are at times beyond our control, there are still some cycles on Earth
which can be broken in order to help each other better cope with the ongoing effects of Climate Change…

Peace and Love to everyone across the planet L.D.K

(Article copyright of L.D.K)

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^{The Mapuche and Agricultural Diversity; From the Past the Present and Into the Future…}

Since Millenia, the Native Indigenous Mapuche peoples of Argentina and Chile have grown a variety crops from maize, to legumes (beans), potatoes and quinoa along with a large variety of fruit trees in their settlements which span across Argentina and Chile and which date back to at least 500 B.C.

In regards to the increasing issues of industrial over utilisation; which in turn result in the further problems of increased deforestation, land degradation, and desertification along with various types of water pollution – which in a lot of cases are worsening across many parts of the world that are currently also experiencing longer periods of Climatic Flux /Climate Change acceleration; Indigenous small scale agricultural land practices (such as those of the Mapuche), highlight the growing need to value and to bring into focus the ecological and humanitarian importance of caring for the earth from a wider international perspective which is more inclusive towards native Indigenous world biosphere stewardship; through Indigenous land use in terms of achieving better overall levels of global biodiversity and agricultural/food diversity from things such as Indigenous small scale (organic) agriculture in order to help to counter-act growing levels of food insecurity; soil nutrient depletion and to also lower excessive man made atmospheric and fresh water pollution at this time and in decades to come…

Peace and Love L.D.K