FLOODS RESULT FROM THE INCOMPETENCE OF PUBLIC POWERS TO AVOID THEM

Fernando Alcoforado*

From 7pm yesterday to 7am today (03/11/2019) today it rained 32.6% of what was supposed to rain in the whole of March in the city of São Paulo, which has so far killed 12 people from drowning and burial. Councilman Eduardo Tuma (PSDB), interim mayor of the city of São Paulo, said that given the exceptional rainfall “there is no way to predict, there is no a priori action that can provide a posteriori solution to the event”. The absurd statement of the interim mayor of Sao Paulo is the same as many incompetent and irresponsible rulers who attribute the flood to excessive rainfall and that nothing could be done to address it, when what actually occurred was the lack of preventive and precautionary measures to deal with the occurrence of rainfall during this time of year.

Regarding preventive and precautionary measures to deal with events such as yesterday in São Paulo, they are cited in articles that I have published on various websites and a specialized magazine, such as the following:

1) O DÉFICIT DE ENGENHARIA NA SOLUÇÃO DO PROBLEMA DAS ENCHENTES NO BRASIL (THE ENGINEERING DEFICIT IN THE SOLUTION OF THE FLOODS PROBLEM IN BRAZIL). Published on 7/30/2018 at the website <https://www.academia.edu/36300389/O_D%C3%89FICIT_DE_ENGENHARIA_NA_SOLU%C3%87%C3%83O_DO_PROBLEMA_DAS_ENCHENTES_NO_BRASIL >).
2) COMO PREPARAR AS CIDADES CONTRA EVENTOS CLIMÁTICOS EXTREMOS (HOW TO PREPARE CITIES AGAINST EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS). Published on 02/10/2019 at the website <https://www.academia.edu/38323819/COMO_PREPARAR_AS_CIDADES_CONTRA_EVENTOS_CLIM%C3%81TICOS_EXTREMOS..pdf>).
3) FLOOD CONTROL AND ITS MANAGEMENT. Posted on 11/30/2018 in the Journal of Atmospheric & Earth Sciences <http://www.heraldopenaccess.us//fulltext/Atmospheric-&-Earth-Sciences/Flood-Control-and- its-Management.pdf>).

These articles show what and how to take preventive and precautionary measures against extreme weather events, including floods. The interim mayor of São Paulo and other rulers of Brazil need to surround themselves with competent technical advice to assume their responsibilities in order to protect people and public and private property against extreme events not to say nonsense such as “there is no a priori action that can provide a posteriori solution to the occurrence”.

* Fernando Alcoforado, 79, holder of the CONFEA / CREA System Medal of Engineering Merit, member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor in Territorial Planning and Regional Development by the University of Barcelona, ​​university professor and consultant in the areas of strategic planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is the author of 14 books addressing issues such as Globalization and Development, Brazilian Economy, Global Warming and Climate Change, The Factors that Condition Economic and Social Development,  Energy in the world and The Great Scientific, Economic, and Social Revolutions that Changed the World.

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FERNANDO ANTONIO GONÇALVES ALCOFORADO, condecorado com a Medalha do Mérito da Engenharia do Sistema CONFEA/CREA, membro da Academia Baiana de Educação, da SBPC- Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência e do IPB- Instituto Politécnico da Bahia, engenheiro pela Escola Politécnica da UFBA e doutor em Planejamento Territorial e Desenvolvimento Regional pela Universidade de Barcelona, professor universitário (Engenharia, Economia e Administração) e consultor nas áreas de planejamento estratégico, planejamento empresarial, planejamento regional e planejamento de sistemas energéticos, foi Assessor do Vice-Presidente de Engenharia e Tecnologia da LIGHT S.A. Electric power distribution company do Rio de Janeiro, Coordenador de Planejamento Estratégico do CEPED- Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento da Bahia, Subsecretário de Energia do Estado da Bahia, Secretário do Planejamento de Salvador, é autor dos livros Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova (Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado. Universidade de Barcelona,http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of the Economic and Social Development- The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe Planetária (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011), Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012), Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudança Climática Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2015), As Grandes Revoluções Científicas, Econômicas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016), A Invenção de um novo Brasil (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2017), Esquerda x Direita e a sua convergência (Associação Baiana de Imprensa, Salvador, 2018, em co-autoria), Como inventar o futuro para mudar o mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2019), A humanidade ameaçada e as estratégias para sua sobrevivência (Editora Dialética, São Paulo, 2021), A escalada da ciência e da tecnologia ao longo da história e sua contribuição ao progresso e à sobrevivência da humanidade (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2022), de capítulo do livro Flood Handbook (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, United States, 2022), How to protect human beings from threats to their existence and avoid the extinction of humanity (Generis Publishing, Europe, Republic of Moldova, Chișinău, 2023) e A revolução da educação necessária ao Brasil na era contemporânea (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2023).

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