Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-24304025-20151115130026

This is not "fun" at all, but I guess the off-topic board was the best place to post it. Sorry if it's not proper, be free to delete if you will, but I feel this is important.

Guys, Brazil needs all prayers we can get. The largest environmental disaster of our history is going on and it threatens to get one of our states off the map. Two dams burst at an iron ore mine and mud spreads fast all over the state. The volume of mud could fill more then 20 thousand olympic swimming pools, meaning it is really serious. One of the most important rivers in the country was officially reported as "dead", meaning 100% of the fish couldn't survive the contamination. Thousands of people there have literally no water and a third dam might explode at any time. We're all desperate, and yet the media don't give the thing the proper attention because it's one of the world's biggest mining companies that manages the dams and there are lots of interests behind it all. Reports seem to show that there had been warns about the risk and they were neglected. The president announced the company must pay a fine at least R$ 250 millions for damaging hydrographical resources and destroying a large part of the Nation patrimony. That said, I'm really, really sad about Paris. For real. I'm not saying one should choose either one cause or the other, but TV here spends the whole day reporting Paris while one of our most important cultural, historical and even economic regions is in chaos. Nearly 16 thousands of millions of gallons of mud spread down 310 miles in a few days. According to ecologists, the damage might take decades or even more than one century to be repaired. The brown tsunami might make the soil infertile for a very long time, it won't be possible to plant there - or build anything, for that matter. It might become a desert of mud. Half a million people are already in lack of water. Biodiversity can be lost, some endemic species are already considered extinct, like a rare kind of turtle that lives in that region whose period of reproduction is in November.

Today is a holyday in Brazil. November 15 is the day Brazil became a Republic. However, the brown is covering part of our green and yellow flag.



Please, pray for us. The whole creation is laboring in pain.  