The city of Sao Paulo is engulfed in smoke from Amazon forest fires and carried thousands of miles by the wind
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him- fire continue to destroy the Amazon rainforest and the smoke rising above the flames is spreading across Brazil.
The images that come from San Paulo show one apocalyptic scenario, with the city suffocated by a thick black smoke that darkened the city in broad daylight.
Good morning. Perhaps, you wanna know what the apocalypse is gonna look like? This was São Paulo, yesterday at 3pm #PrayforAmazonia pic.twitter.com/8uvSlZe1mO
– André Só (@AndreLeSolo) August 20, 2019
São Paulo is located 3.500 km from the Amazon rainforest, the same distance that separates Moscow from Barcelona.
Yet the smoke from fires that are ravaging the largest rainforest on the planet reached the city, turning day into night.
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Foto Nilton Fukuda
Foto Nilton Fukuda
Foto Nilton Fukuda
Some citizens have collected therain water, completely blackened by particulate matter.
Photo Credit Reddit
Even more worrying images come from satellites and are those related to levels of carbon monoxide emitted by fires, in a dizzying and dangerous increase.
Carbon monoxide level map. Photo Credit Infoamazzonia.
Citizens' exposure a such high amounts of smoke it can cause damage to the respiratory tract, burning eyes, fatigue.
- high levels of carbon monoxide can have consequences even more severe and cause dizziness, headache, nausea and vomiting, unconsciousness and even death.
Without counting the long-term effects on global warming caused by gas emissions into the atmosphere and the loss of our largest green lung.
Countries affected by the fires have declared it state of emergency, but we are faced with aemergency that affects the whole planet.
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Cover photo Leandro Mota
