A survey carried out by the Instituto Democracia em Xeque, on Instagram posts by some of the national leaders of the ruralist caucus, as well as the ruralist deputies who are part of the caucus of federal deputies in Rio Grande do Sul, indicates a worrying trend: persistence, in the context of manifestations of solidarity, of a narrative that completely ignores the influence of the climate and environmental crisis as one of the determining factors of the tragedy that befell the State and the people of Rio Grande do Sul.