Who's lifetime have we measuring this off of? Because it seems like we keep picking short-lived people. Maybe they are being killed by these disasters, which create somewhat of a paradox.
Maybe, just maybe, Brazil shouldn't keep chopping down rainforest to extract iron/oil and grow soybean/chicken/cow? Brazil needs to rapidly industrialized their economy because resource exploitation is clearly unsustainable.
Recently, Chinese companies have started to rapidly expand their Brazilian manufacturing footprint, but it's not enough.