Posted on 11/05/2025 6:37:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down. Luis Cassiano, who’s lived here more than 30 years, says he’s getting worried as heat waves become more frequent and fierce.
In poor areas such as Arara, those who can afford air conditioning — Cassiano is one — can’t always count on it because of frequent power outages on an overloaded system.
“The sun in the summer nowadays is scary,” Cassiano said.
As world leaders come to Brazil for climate talks, people like Cassiano are the ones with the most at stake. Poor communities are often more vulnerable to hazards like extreme heat and supersized storms and less likely to have the resources to cope than wealthier places.
It’s not just poor people in poor countries who suffer when poverty and climate change collide. A U.N. Development Programme report found that even in highly developed countries, 82% of people living in poverty will be exposed to at least one of four climate hazards: high heat, drought, floods and air pollution.
Although the public narrative has long been that humankind has generally been making progress on alleviating poverty, numbers show that now there’s a “stagnation,” said Pedro Conceição, director of the Human Development Report Office at the UNDP. “The numbers are high and they are not budging.”
But Conceição said it’s wrong to think about poverty reduction and climate as a tradeoff.
The idea that climate is only a future problem, “or it’s about things out there like glaciers melting, needs to be completely thrown out and replaced with the notion that actually the two agendas are one and the same,” he said.
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Climate what?
Yes they do. If the “climate talks” take further steps to replace Capitalism with Green Socialism, the poor are going to suffer.
Climate is just weather over a long time but now they say climate is daily/weekly so doesn’t just mean weather ,LOL
The sun always shines hotter on poor people.
” If the “climate talks” take further steps to replace Capitalism with Green Socialism, the poor are going to suffer.”
If a Dem is elected POTUS in 2028, consider it a done deal. Fits nicely with the leftist elite’s desire for depopulation.
Free Venezuelan boat rides.
It's amusing - Rush once pointed out that people's time line begins and ends with them, and "the worst I've ever seen" means nothing.
That idea was reinforced last summer when Texas broke some heat records set in.... 1915.
Climate talks with the craziest people on the planet attending
Climate talks????
Climate talks about how much money it can get for it’s Scam
As the world enters talks discussing how to rip off the poor and rich alike... p3ople in poverty stand to lose the most.
Apparently hot tropical places are supposed to be cool ebough that the poor dont have to spend money using air conditioners. Evidently, no place on earth is supposed to be hot enough to even need air conditioners. So according to the climate hoaxers, the fact that people have to use them at all is proof that man is destroying yhe planet... or sumthin
numbers show that now there’s a “stagnation,”
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Probably because the implementation of green new deal already!
But do not worry, it will get worse!
Th3y are the most evil people. Exploiting the poor, lording it over the weak who can’t fight back b3cause they dont have the power of the law on their side like the lying deceitfful c.imate hoaxers do. They are evil people- punishing the world for no reason whatso ever
The only threat to the poor is that when monies are assigned to rich elites to distribute, there will be less to help the poor.
Here’s a fact: every second, THE SUN releases more energy than the world and mankind have produced in the whole existence of earth.
To suggeat that mankind is responaible for climate change is ignorant and deceitful. Man’s co2 is so miniscule compared the the atmosphere’s size that only a bald faced liar would claim man was causing climate change. There is nowhere near enough man p4oduced co2 to blanket the earth in a thick enough layer to pr3vent heat from escaping. Nowhere near enough.
Th3 climate fhange hoax is the most insidious lie ever told practically
People of poverty and these billionaires have the most to lose.
Yikes what a load of BS. AP really sets the bar.
Well, Luis, you're getting older. I know I can't tolerate heat now that I could 30+ years ago. Some of the working conditions I experienced back then would likely kill me today, so I leave that sort of thing to the youngsters.
A dollop of melodrama to light up our interest in COP30, which is in danger of becoming the last of its kind, due to growing indifference.
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