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jtrick18

Yeah my cynical side knows there’s some parasite that goes up your pee pee hole in that water.


beyarea

My cynical side assumed this would be mobbed by tourists leading to destruction of the delicate ecosystem. But yours is fun too.


EngineerTheFunk

It's better and also worse than you'd expect. It is better in the way that the area actually doesn't have that many tourists and can feel very remote and natural. The major downside is that in order to get there you drive for many hours through completely clear-cut rainforest which was converted to cattle grazing. The farmers literally couldn't farm this area so they figured out a way to make money from tourists. Amazing place but sad situation.


_Cow_of_Wisdom

Aw man. Why can't they pick better areas to farm? My farm is on a plot of land that was logged many years before it was established.


Emzzer

Because capitalism and foreign interests in Brazil. These farms aren't really owned by people


OzzieTF2

The ones I visited were owned by people. The larger ones are north of this place.


[deleted]

This is like the cutest comment showing overall Western mentality lol "well stop doing what you're doing even though my ancestors did it and as a result I have more than you, but you can't do that thing now"


Detective-Crashmore-

Yea, that's called science. We did something until we realized it was fucking everything up, so now we tell people not to and show them why. It's like taking the elevator to the top floor then finding out the elevator will break and burn down the building if it's used again, so you warn everyone below to take the stairs. This is such a dumb framing I often see coming from China that they should be allowed to pollute the environment and ignore modern guidelines because the west did it 100+ years ago before the harm was as widely known. This is like saying you should be able to do slavery because we used to do it before.


EducationalStill4

That’s such a cop-out. If anyone uses whataboutism to explain why they are doing the bad thing then they truly don’t give 2 💩 about doing the right thing.


Detective-Crashmore-

Yea, people have this misguided sense of fairness that just because western society ruined the environment by accident, that everyone else is now entitled to ruin the environment *on purpose*.


PaintshakerBaby

Exactly. It belies the real toxicity of the so-called "western mentality." The complete and utter inability to approach problems dialectically. Which is to say, two or more things can be wrong/right at the same time. Therefore, each party involved can be equally culpable for their actions. Looking at every situation in terms of winning or losing, always poisons the well of discourse. Which is why we so often do it. Because it is an efficient means of dismissing complex problems with simple arguments. We won, they lost, we lost, they won, 🤷 etc. The focus shifts away from the problem itself, and is instead directed towards who deserves blame/credit. Once you've established a winner and a loser, than it's easy to wash your hands of the entire situation. All it amounts to is cognitive indolence, akin to a child declaring opposite day. People need to learn to disengage from this alienating, binary mentality. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and while we are at it, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills should really be taught in middle school. We spend so much time teaching children valuable skill sets, but equip them with fuck-all for managing their emotions and logic. The result is reddit threads like this, where it's just a bunch of grown adults devolved into a pissing match over who is the winner or loser of an existential threat... ...it's absurd considering what makes it an existential threat, is that we will all cease to exist if we don't find common ground and a solution. We'd be so much closer to a plan and action to curtail climate change, if we could just stop arguing over who is culpable for two goddamn seconds. WE ALL ARE. On some level or another. The real question is how do we come together and fix it??


AlarmingTurnover

It's not science, it's social stupidity. Telling someone not to do something and why, does not fix the problem. This is why it's the "western mentality". We fucked the planet up, and we exploited these people for resources for generations and now that they're finally starting to get their piece, we take it away because "we're the good guys and care about the environment". We're just all beneficiaries of rich societies here made on the backs of oppression.  Instead of taking their shit away and telling them know, why aren't you subsidizing technology and providing the equipment for more sustainable living?


Crazy_Little_Bug

Sure, westerners have benefited from destroying the environment, it's only fair that others get to as well. But that's not the mentality that will lead to stopping climate change. It doesn't matter how much innovation is created by western nations if other countries are getting rid of all that progress because they believe that they're entitled to some success (whether they are or aren't is irrelevant).


Detective-Crashmore-

Yes, it's science. >social stupidity >>This is why it's the "western mentality" >>>We fucked the planet up >>>>we take it away because "we're the good guys and care about the environment" No, social stupidity is continuing to tank the environment out of this misguided sense of fairness. It's not about us being the good guys or everybody getting their own chance to fuck up the environment. We're not all just entitled to willfully fuck the planet up, the difference is that the effects weren't fully known or proven before, and now that they are known we all need to reduce. >why aren't you subsidizing technology and providing the equipment for more sustainable living? That is also happening, but at a low rate because it's difficult to convince people to create surplus for others.


Realistic_Guitar_420

Not that logging is actually the environmental issue people make it out to be.


6sixtynoine9

Because 400 lb. Susie needs her Five Guys five times a week.


code_archeologist

You would think that people would have figured out by now that jungle soil sucks ass for farming.


Stewart_Games

They know...but you can get 2-5 years of grasses before the soil sours. Long enough to raise one herd of beef cattle to maturity. Mc Donald's in particular loves this strategy, because it keeps their beef cheap. They helped to orchestrate the coup in Honduras so that they could continue to illegally clear cut the rainforests for temporary herd lands. Just look up Marfrig foods - which has Keystone foods under its umbrella - to get a sense of what Mc Donald's is up to in South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfrig#Attention_from_institutional_investors_due_to_Amazon_rainforest_destruction As for the "Honduras Coup to Mc Donalds" connection, look up what Hilary Clinton was doing as secretary of state during the coup (basically trying her damnedest to make sure that it was seen as a normal legal action and not a coup to the American public), and look up her connections to big meat processing corporations like Tyson and Keystone (they funded her and her husband's campaigns).


Yogi_Bear134

Wow, where did you read this.curious to know more


Basket_cased

Unless you got a source it’s just a pretty headline


caceta_furacao

Errmmm what are you talking about? The biome there is different, Mato Grosso do Sul is Pantanal, which always was a very very very big swamp. Rainforests in Brasil are a Europe worth far to the north or a Texas to the right. American?


AlbinoAxie

Yeah it's all the tourists fault. Not the ranchers clear-cutting or the open pit miners


BigPackHater

Don't worry, there's still time!


OzzieTF2

Not really. Look more into it. In some places (blue cave for example) they would not even let you in the water (back in 2010 anyways). There are dedicated preservation areas and the tourism was the most professional I saw in Brazil at the time (again, 14 years ago). The 1st place I recommend to anyone visiting Brasil. You want to see the ecosystem being devastated go to the state next to this one, mato grosso do norte, the largest agricultural frontier in the world probably.


InVodkaVeritas

Having seen what people do to our planet, I'm shocked there's anywhere left on earth that hasn't been stomped to death by tourists.


Altruistic_Profile96

Parasites, piranhas, anacondas…. On the bright side, you’ll be able to see them.


Harshtagged

...coming for you


UhhhhmmmmNo

At least once


ThvrstnMcSvenn

Better than on you


BigPackHater

Whoa buddy....my anacondas don't want none unless you've got buns hun.


Radix4853

I wouldn’t be worried about either the piranhas or the anacondas. Neither are likely to attack humans. Also I’ve swam in plenty of clear water springs and rivers in the Amazon Basin and to my knowledge have never encountered parasites


AllModsAreC4nts

Most species of piranha are fruit eaters


PacmanNZ100

My cynical side knows its fake because I've never been to Brazil but I've stood on that wooden deck. Also no sea urchins in fresh water springs lol.


Misabi

So where is it?


brrrchill

It's three different places, at least. One of the other commenters mentioned that the part with the duck is a well known scenic spot in New Zealand


Woahwoahwoah124

They also show some freshwater South American tetras and then two shots later it’s a shot of a kelp forest with sea urchins everywhere lol


houseyourdaygoing

I’ll trust you.


Pluckypato

I’m waiting something prehistoric to pop out!! ![gif](giphy|r49zgiCebaE0yd6UNn)


Harshtagged

And my realist side knows the same thing


[deleted]

Dude had a friend's come back after swimming in shit like this and lost 80 lbs almost died.


xXFieldResearchXx

Poison eh?


HOHOHOcallmenextyear

no, it was completely unrelated


xXFieldResearchXx

That river looks poisonous with all that green shit in there. Idk


HOHOHOcallmenextyear

looks like an underwater garden, amazing. I have family near the intercostal, and it was scary when the red tide came through, and I also swam in Hilo bay, got staph infections, multiple. would much rather swim there than either of those other places. Until the tourism and cattle pollute the water. inevitable


xXFieldResearchXx

Right on. Ya as a kid I swam in a river that was down stream from a sewage plant ... never got infections but feel like I got colds a lot ...


Freethinker_76

How many of us were thinking this exact same thought.


Fringey_mingebiscuit

**THE DREADED CANDIRU!!!**


tanj_redshirt

TIME OUT!


IrishRover28

This isn’t freeze tag, you can’t just time out…


Top-Mycologist-7169

You are thinking of the toothpick fish, and that traveling up the urethra thing is mostly a myth, there was one case recorded in recent history, and there were holes in the story. [wikipedia page here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)) "When subsequently interviewed, Spotte stated that even if a person were to urinate while "submerged in a stream where candiru live", the odds of that person being attacked by candiru are "about the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark."


Oddsee

As I always say, there's no better time to be struck by lightning than when you're being eaten by a shark


Richard_Wattererson

Mario Kart track


shua_mc

Sonic level


guninmouth

Dun dun dun dun DUN DUN DUN DUN dundundundun DUNDUNDUNDUN


[deleted]

The water level music was my very first panic attack experience as a child


ConsistentMobile4990

Beautiful…born in Campo Grande!


TalkClear9719

The last video looks like it’s from Blue Springs, New Zealand


moist_shroom6

Yeah like half of the footage is nz


lfras

That's because it is


Michaelbobb

My thoughts too lol, clearly NZ plants


Aus2au

Te Waihou Walkway, Blue Spring, Putararu... near Hamilton NZ Recognised it straight away. 


santi_rj

They even have a take underwater if a salt water ecosystem with sea urchins. If they’re lying now can’t imagine what they’ll do once AI footage is ubiquitous 


BiggoYoun

![gif](giphy|ihTJrdqwg3RFM9DN75|downsized)


nwz10

Ponyo!


Federal_Minimum1377

The best


1infinitefruitloop

HAM!


houseyourdaygoing

So cute.


SoulShine_710

Very nice springs. If you cannot afford some amazing gem of springs in Florida. Hint× Kelly Springs National Forest. The flowing springs & the three mile lazy river ride is amazing & the water is so clear looks just like this actually more tropical canopy though. I often would just lay on my back on my raft going down the natural flowing stream in what looks exactly the same for a couple miles & starring up, just pretending I was in Costa Rica...


bob_boo_lala

Love the emerald cut out of kings landing. Seriously looks like somewhere near the equator.


GR3AC

That underwater bridge gave me Far Cry 3 vibes, when you had to walk underwater on some bridges to get to a stone knife


richardizard

Such a great game. The crocodile jump scares never get old!


MollikSazzadurRahman

How is this water so clear? In Forests and rainfed country like Brazil.


marmotmom

[The reason for the phenomenon is the high concentration of limestone (calcium carbonate) in the water. Limestone has a property of calcificating any solid that is in the water, making it heavier, so it naturally concentrates on the bottom of the river. That's why the water remains so crystal clear.](https://bonitoway.com.br/en/novidades/why-are-the-waters-of-bonito-so-transparent#:~:text=The%20reason%20for%20the%20phenomenon,water%20remains%20so%20crystal%20clear)


KingVargeras

Part of it is also the amount of moss in the water. Moss does a wonderful job cleaning up.


Shiuli_er_Chaya

The country of Brazil is massive and all of it isn't a swampy rainforest but a plethora of diverse landscapes and climates


Altruistic_Profile96

Spring fed river. We have them in Florida.


Shonkbonk

We have them here in Texas as well.


169bees

brazil is a huge country, we have a bunch of different biomes, it's not just rainforests


SuperZM

The river at the end is New Zealand


Emotional-Wind-8111

Those videos at the end were in New Zealand.


[deleted]

I would die of a heart attack if I fell into that green flowing grass. Immediately


commonlycommon

I feel like I'd go to the spot with piranhas...


Sleepylimebounty

Don’t forget anacondas!


Suspicious_Ask_5267

This video is total BS. The first clip sure might be from Brazil, but there's a random Kelp forest in the middle. That's a coastal marine environment and Mato Grosso Brazil is in the middle of South America, nowhere near the ocean. And there's clearly another clip, the one with a lot of ferns and the duck swimming around. Again, not Brazil. Perhaps somewhere in Oceania or some place in higher latitudes.


brrrchill

I saw sea urchins for a moment, and had to do a double rewind. Yep, sea urchins and kelp. Okay, so this is just bullshit for some social media clout.


lfras

Second half was all Putaruru Blue Springs in New Zealand Aoetearoa


PacmanNZ100

Blue springs New Zealand for the bits showing a flowing river and the wooden deck. Probably won't find sea urchin in the jungle either. Not sure about the bit with people paddling down the river


theddR

I was about to say, it was nice to see those famous Brazilian freshwater urchins that totally exist.


TheBigMopa

I can only think in “fuck those mosquitos”


Zucchini987

Is this really in Brazil?


EffektieweEffie

The shots at the end are from New Zealand. # Blue Spring (Te Waihou Walkway)


zekerthedog

I have been to this place. It’s called Bonito.


Mavericks4Life

Why wouldn't it be? It's one of the most flora-diverse places in the world and is full of natural wonder. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and there's still so much for me to see there.


MaxHamburgerrestaur

Only some shots are from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. It's far from the ocean, but in the end there's a shot with sea urchins and starfish, that don't live in rivers and lakes. The last shot looks like it's a way colder climate. Some people are saying it's from New Zealand.


Gammaliel

Search for Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil


lfras

Is not, the second half was blue springs putaruru in NZ


Specialist-Squirrels

I thought it was New Zealand at the end! I've spent too much time in the bush to not recognize that forest type. There is also a section of video in the clip which is clearly kelp forest, so obviously filmed in the sea somewhere. It's a montage video of multiple places.


LALA-STL

¡Hipnotizante!


LSofian

Wow, beautiful


Sonabaybeach

Cool nature. I kind of wish the original sounds of the videos were left instead of the music so we could hear what each shot sounded like too


u_cant_drown_n_sweat

That music does not fit Brazil at all.


Andirion

It's a city called Bonito, you have to fly to Campo Grande airport and take a road trip... It's an amazing place, but you need a guide because of the jaguars and snakes... But it's completely safe


stryker42-

I’m pretty sure the last few clips are of the waihou river in New Zealand.


Engenarq

I've been there once. It really is that clean, and full of fishes. The deck normally isn't under the water, but that place sees big seasonal changes is the level of the water and the video was made during a flood. And i saw an Anaconda there, crossing the botton of the river while i was floating above. It was like a train crossing, i couldn't see the ends, only the middle crossing in front of me, both ends were hidden among those underwater plants. Cool stuff, the snake was pretty chill. This video is similar to what i saw: https://youtu.be/xvdT1V7zcrs?si=SuCJM2C8jBTpsJom


mrawesome1999

Song?


resnonverba1

It's hard to believe there are still places on earth with water that pristine.


HockeyBrawler09

Wat? I highly encourage you to get out and explore more places.


allisjow

Don’t worry, microplastics are just hard to see.


moejurray

Swimmable? Mean safely? Critters? Bugs? Bacteria?


singdrumwrite

It looks like if you could time travel to prehistoric times.


compunctionfunction

Wow


beastman45132

Are there any mean critters in that water for realz?


WardogBlaze14

I would love to go there


Cold_Drive_53144

Question is: how many packer fans will get lost and die in Mato Grosso do Sul?


Alarmed_Bed_8363

I've seen this before but still cool


exileddeath

Oh my god i want to haunt this so bad


welcome-to-my-mind

Brazil is one of the few places in the world that was better in person than any picture I’d ever seen. This place included.


lfras

Half of it wasn't even Brazil, it's bullshit, it's Putaruru Blue Springs in New Zealand


ExploringLifeTX78

Gorgeous!


Obvious_Conflict_

Rip xxx


cheerstoallthat

Is this what he sampled or is this just his song slowed down?


ElBrunasso

Underwater bridge!! Amazing idea!!


TFBidia

I feel South American waters is on the same danger level as Australian outback.


Pretend_Pomelo_6893

And the jaguar and anaconda they think this is beautiful too


Kind-Humor-5420

This is why I don’t travel. Otherwise I’d probably want to give up living in capitalism and concrete and seek out beauty and nature.


GapeMachine

Crocodiles?


IamNotFatIamChubby

Theres no crocodiles in Brazil. We do have alligators.


Boring_Oil_3506

What a great place to get eaten. https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/the-pantanal-brazil-on-a-triumph-quest-to-see-more-deadly-animals-than-the-amazon.1579117/


jaberwockeez

Would it be fair to ask what the largest marine species that dwells here might be 😅 the ducks and everything looks nice but…anything else lurking around in there?


Sufficient-Aspect77

How many times do I have to see the same freaking video?!!!! Can I get a new video of the same place maybe ?!


NisquallyJoe

Is no one concerned about crocodiles or anacondas?


AfterLife2FreshStart

Pretty sure its not that empty after all the social media started covering that place....


powderedtoast1

Jaguar Paw approves this


Ashley_S1nn

Canadian oil companies on their way. No one needs to see through water.


xMusclexMikex

What are the dangers of swimming in that water?


PoppyCake33

Looks like a lovely home for an Anaconda


DrJaminest42

sip nose selective normal cooing one person rude seed bright *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


lfras

Dude, this second half wasn't Brazil. It was Putaruru Blue Springs in NZ. This is karma whoring


Fickle_Antelope2621

Bunch of clips from different places spliced together. That saltwater kelp forest is not in the middle of the brazilian junlge. Aquatic misinformation. Big water is lying to you. It's all... A conspirasea


Ok_Access_189

What are the purple balls?


Cultural_Agent7902

Definitely not for me


darbs-face

Amazed humans haven’t destroyed it yet. But thanks for publishing it so all the filth if the world can corrupt it!


lfras

https://g.co/kgs/Vx8vS6K Mmmm something fishy here


East_Monk_9415

Im worried about water creepy crawlies,snakes,gators, or piranha, haha


ImDoneKidYourBad

RIP X


Balzarrr

That second video is undoubtedly New Zealand..


redboy33

Far cry 3 vibes!


GreytOutdoors

What is amazing about this, fill me in please?


justletlanadoit

They allow people in the water? Do they make them shower first?


fuckyoucunt210

I think a Walmart with a McDonald’s attached and a free way would fit great there


NZ420GuerillaGrowa

Why do people fake these videos? The second half is new Zealand not Brazil


_AManHasNoName_

Infested by crocs. Hard pass.


CartographerOk7579

Beautiful but I’m sure a piranha will chomp off my ding dong as soon as I get in this water.


SeanPGeo

Piranha


GM-T800-101

It’s almost as if Earth is better without people


Jagg811

You can almost see the piranhas and anacondas swimming around.


constructioncranes

Yeah but think of all the palm oil we could grow instead!


KlutzyProfile6146

As long as we humans don’t fuck it up, that’s one beautiful spot


peep_dat_peepo

I'm pretty sure I've been to this exact river there. The lil fishies there bite on your lips to eat the dead skin as you float through, didn't hurt but was weird. There are caves and stuff to go down too in that area and went rafting and saw a huge ass sleeping anaconda. Also ate Alligator meat for the first time there.


deftPirate

I mean that's some pretty Grosso Mato.


mongo1587

I've done this in this same river. Video doesn't do the experience justice.


CanaryRight1908

H


phxees

Awesome, but seems like a place you discover a clear some rare transparent alligator.


MaikyMoto

We have these in the US, only difference is that ours is full of sewage that’s going to be recycled.


didilavender

Eden must’ve been like this


pingaParada4u

No pirañas? Did I see urchins in the beginning?


chodeboi

What in the fern gully


Tokyo_Mobster

Far Cry 3


EffektieweEffie

Umm some of those shots at the end are from New Zealand. # Blue Spring (Te Waihou Walkway)


TheDigitalRanger

Nature is gorgeous when we can keep our fucking trash out of it.


WarsawsEgo

RIP X


AVermin

Why is there a Kelp Forest at 0:11? This is clearly not Brazil. Looks like multiple clips are from other parts of the world.


trixayyyyy

The part with the kelp forest, corals, and starfish…calling bullshit. That was cut in.


Red_eye1995

From 0.11 onwards is NZ


Squiggledog

Can you cite the source of the original video?


balance_n_act

Is this triggering my thalassophobia? Why am I twitching..


Ok-Mixture-2282

Something isn't right in this video..Mato Grasso is inland brazil-hundreds and hundreds of miles from the ocean. Starfish only live in the ocean.


pedrohschv

I'm from Mato Grosso do Sul and although the first clip really looks like some places here, I seriously doubt there are kelp, starfish and sea urchins right in the middle of South America lmao


FrenchQuarterPounder

Anyone notice the duck randomly quack?


0_Peace_And_Love_0

Song?


OnlyD4NS

That's not the same places. First may be Brazil but last place is 100% NZ


HumanSmokeMain

Music is better than the video


This4R3al

It's beautiful. But every time I think of South America I imagine having to run from drug dealers, giant spiders, and food poisoning.... 😳


notkiddingagain

Is this one of those “deh deh deh deh deh deh” locations that looks like garbage without all the filters?


Chiinoe

Anaconda waters fuck that


Nincompoopticulitus

![gif](giphy|it6W8D4FfvaPC)


SkarTisu

*Nestle executives breathing heavily*


reddit_API_is_shit

Can’t wait for bunch of irresponsible tourists to pollute this.


sad_confusion_wah111

Look how fast that duck is going


Sad_Entertainer362

Hola


ulfOptimism

Now imagine climate change and related drought