Posted on by Doug Santo

Brazil debris flow. Terrible. It is the normal process of mass wasting exacerbated by human encroachment on marginally stable slopes, poor or no engineering and poor or no applied geology. It is not Climate Change.

Photograph. Hill in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, city of Nova Friburgo. The photo shows veins of earth after a series of landslides and destroyed houses. End of description.

Photograph. Morro de Petrópolis with open earth veins after a series of landslides. End of description.

Doug Santo