“There is a consensus that climate change is the result of human action,” the expert says.

Professor Celso Gracie evaluates the scenario of severe drought and frost that have caused damage to agriculture. It also commented on the floods that killed more than 200 people in Germany and Belgium and the burning in the United States and Canada. Climate disasters, in addition to economic losses, have caused deaths around the world. In Brazil, the crops hardest hit were maize, sugarcane and coffee. Check out the expert analysis:

“We agree among scientists that events like cold, heat, and torrential rain are all caused by human action on the planet. So the climate has been compromised. First, the carbon dioxide problem, which always comes with burning fossil fuels. Imagine how polluted a plane is when it leaves Sao Paulo and go to New York,” Gracie notes.

In addition, we have a series of industrial events that emit a huge amount of carbon dioxide and other gases, such as methane, causing global warming, as well as deforestation, which is not just a Brazilian phenomenon. As it happened in Siberia, Russia, Canada, the USA and Africa – the problem of deforestation is very serious. In Brazil, we have to deal with this in the Cerrado and in the Amazon, but not only in Brazil it is what is happening”, adds the professor.

“We are already showing that the contribution of agriculture is positive. Livestock, with Embrapa’s new research as well – in systems where green livestock are made, without restrictions. We are now facing these frosts, which will affect fruit and vegetable prices in the next 40 days, as well as significantly endangering our production of corn, sugarcane and coffee.”