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I believe any place in the world even barren grounds have a great chance of prospering if they are built on solid values and are free from the yoke of a government controlling all aspects of their lives. And conversely a propesrous nation (which Brazil was) will degenerate into something else without adherence to good values and freedom or a money printing mechanism like the Bretton Woods system.

Government will not solve anything and is unfit to deal with those events as it's for everything else. This was demonstrated by it's poor performance this year dealing with the floodings in April/May and presently the country-wide fires. As always it's up to the affected and the civil society with their tax constrained resourced to deal with the gross.

Droughts and fires can be mitigated by technology and planning but it's not like magic. As you said it's expensive and Brazilians are not only cash constrained but everything that is tech related costs multiples than what someone would expect to pay in other countries and is harder to find. And Brazil is risk and everyday is a different surprise be it from petty criminals or the pros (government employees).

Certainly if Bolsonaro was still the country's president the mainstream narrative would blame him for all that is happening and call him a genocide worst than Hitler because he is the scape goat. But as it is the sacred sheep who is in power nobody dares to criticize the government. It's no coincidence the timing of X ban. Not only this deviates the public discourse from this tragedy but also silenced any mainstream opposition.

Also a share of those fires are not natural but deliberately caused by people. Maybe someone is profiting from this like narcos in São Paulo or it's a mass hysteria thing. Well, there's plenty of evidence of both cases. Also this is nothing new just the scale that is abnormal.