Why Most Cities Can’t Handle Flooding

The climate crisis is worsening floods around the world – but there’s another reason we see so much damage from these disasters. In many places, infrastructure was built with no regard for increasing rainfalls or warmer temperatures.

The good news is that building resilient infrastructure is actually cheaper than recovering from damage after a disaster. We spoke to the Sunrise Movement’s John Paul Mejia and geography professor Jola Ajibade about what it will take to ensure that communities facing increasing floods don’t just survive, but thrive.

#flood #infrastructure #climate

00:00 Introduction
00:50 The climate science behind more frequent flooding
01:34 How U.S. infrastructure isn’t ready for global heating
03:30 Nature-based infrastructure
03:55 Social infrastructure
04:18 Capitalism’s role
05:20 Can we stop cities from drowning?
05:39 Building climate resilience is cheaper
06:23 Flexible and sustainable adaptation
07:44 Inequity in extreme weather impacts
08:24 What is an equitable and climate-resilient policy?

[hasanchoudhury]

Why don’t the leaders see these disasters and stop the damage now.
Unacceptable and unsustainable !

[grimaffiliations]

Joe manchin said to press the pause button though

[colonelmustang]

Why is the talk always to mitigate by changing our infrastructre what we need to do is stop the destruction first

[teslercoil]

My understand before I watched the video is that these cities weren't built to withstand these changes.

[amir_fahmi]

Ask not what your country can do for you but what your country can do for Israel.

[manganizulu]

Is effects of climate change have more effects in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere?

[muhammadmohaiminulislam]

At least these cities have fresh water to use....Many people around the world don't have a choice but to buy every drop of water in exchange of unimaginably high price. Come to Bangladesh and see how people around sea lines live, spending most of their income buying drinkable water. Most people in those areas has kidney issues. More and more of their harvesting land is turning infertile as salt is seeping into soil. These are nothing compared to the suffering of those people. They are suffering the most, despite being one of the least emitter of greenhouse gas.

[uhohhotdog]

Move everyone out. Time to start building new cities. Let’s build them correct this time.

[ufa]

Climate isn't doing so kindly towards Polynesia and the rest of the pacific

[VioletHyena]

Build Flood Aqueduct systems from flood prone cities out into the middle of drought areas where it gets deposited into a reservoir and used for local rehydratization of the area.

[firdaus]

For sure, Disaster is a problem for the people, however it' was a token or opportunity to some of the countries politic.

Disaster vs political.

The whole world disaster 80% was already been politicalized.
Usually, massive Natural disaster happened 100yrs once or twice, but not month.
The answer of disaster is due to politic issue.vote with wisdom and dont vote blindly, otherwise we have to bear with all the consequenses.

[balung]

Yeah its called the weather. We have had weather for Millions of years.

[andramcdowell]

Republicans won’t let anything that helps anyone but billionaires pass. ☹️

[misterbig]

Humans will evolve. We'll have gills

[DarkAdonis]

A reason why I have a hard time accepting EVERY NATURAL DISASTER as Climate crisis is when people Like Obama (Who supported Climate Crisis theory) buys property that are beach front.

[imrankaixa]

Kpd saudara islam ku, kiamat sudah terlalu dekat, bertaubatlah selagi masa masih ada

[kirstendickerson]

How are is anyone on earth, going controll the emissions from volcanoes???

[boyetdelamerced]

Why is this happening in 2021 so many disaster

[mohammedraazi]

All due to will of Allah .


There is no god worthy of worship except Allah

[andramcdowell]

It’s too late. 😞. Vote democrat for less starvation and a bit of help.