I'm John Gosh

John Bachche with my colleague Professor Ravanelles of the U.S. Army War College.

This is a New World Report.

Rio Grande du Sol, the southernmost state of Brazil. A vital agricultural state grows a great deal of rice and Brazil eats rice. That's their food, but it also exports.

All of Brazil's economy is vital to global eating every day, and now flooding that has not only

crushed people's hopes, but is obliging many to say where we must relocate

we can't live here the houses are wiped out one man weeping admitting to be

weeping over what's left of his house after these floods.

As I understand the professor, the floods were a product of too much rain and the river

system not prepared to get all that rain out to the lagoon and then to the ocean in time before the banks

overran, the banks were overrun and the towns were deluged with water people were evacuated. There is a lot of doubt

about the federal government but still the big story now is relocating. This is

climate migration as I understand it.

On a scale, I've talked to someone who grew up in Rio Grande du Sol, the former foreign minister,

on a scale that no one had ever seen. No stories touch this. I

mention because I report from Australia that there are also heavy rains in

New South Wales. I can't connect it. I'm not a meteorologist, but they've never seen rains like this in New South Wales. The big dam that dominates Sydney has had to have water release, so they deliberately flooded the lowlands in New South Wales to keep the dam intact.

That's two major players in the world economy being damaged by, is the climate change or it's just a bad year?

We can't tell.

What about Brazil, Professor? Is this something that can repair itself?

It's got a vital economy, but we're looking at the

rice growing state damaged badly.

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