Questão 31 - UFPel PAVE - Etapa 1 2022

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Reckless urbanization meets climate change in Brazil’s deadly mudslides

 

Fonte: AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo. Disponível em: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brazil-deadly-mudslides-reflect-neglect172632587.html. Acesso em: 20/02/2022.

 

RIO DE JANEIRO - The landslides that devastated Petropolis this week demolished houses and ripped families

apart, scarred hillsides and hearts, left at least 120 dead and nearly as ___________ missing.
And it ____________ all largely predictable - and to some degree, preventable. 

Rapid urbanization, poor planning, lack of financing for subsidized housing — all of these things have afflicted this
[05] mountain city in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state. Little has been done in response to repeated warnings about the risks
of mountainside construction, researchers as well as current and former public servants told The Associated Press.
And with evidence indicating that climate change is causing more intense rainfall, peril has only increased – not just
for Petropolis, but elsewhere as well. 

More than 1,500 people have died in similar landslides in recent decades in that portion of the Serra do Mar range.
[10] There have been more than 400 deaths from heavy storms in Petropolis alone since 1981.
Antônio Guerra, a geography professor in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, has studied weather-related
catastrophes in Petropolis for almost 30 years. He has visited dozens of sites where houses and lives __________
swallowed by torrents of mud, and investigated the root causes.

“Rain is the great villain, but the main cause is poor land use. There’s a total lack of planning,” Guerra said in a phone
[15] interview. […]
Petropolis’s haphazard sprawl is recent. Nestled in the mountains _________ 40 miles from Rio de Janeiro and
named for a former Brazilian emperor, Petropolis __________ among the nation’s first planned cities. […] 

Referência: https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2022/02/18/reckless-urbanization-meets-climate-change-in-brazils-deadlymudslides/. Acesso em: 15/02/2022.

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