The underdeveloped people of Brazil and Congo recognize climate change while our governor denies it.

[Towlie]

Check out the BBC series, Climate solutions, specifically The global phenomenon swallowing neighbourhoods. The people of the equatorial regions of South America and Africa recognize that the world's environmental conditions are steadily worsening, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill that strikes climate change from state law.

[jpak]

1. If they have a bad Hurricane season

Who's he gonna call to save his butt ...

[Voltaire2]

2. They aren't 'underdeveloped' people.

They are indigenous people who have resisted and avoided being subsumed into the colonial systems of the capitalist north.

[SARose]

3. Thank you

Yes they are indigenous people. Yes, they know how to survive. They can’t survive jungle destruction and “white man” diseases.

[Arne]

4. That's true Voltaire

but here in Florida, if the power grid goes down
catastrophically, I will be Underdeveloped.
' They' don't fully understand that underground
high voltage is not happy underwater.
Transformers on pads in my neighborhood
popped yesterday. Leaving everyone without electricity
from the flooding the day before.
Power techs were excellent in getting it back
but the explosion was huge.

[Voltaire2]

5. Sure. We are wholly dependent on the system.

It is the categorizing of the people who have remained outside the system as ‘underdeveloped’ that just grates on me.