60 Minutes climate archive: Venice is Drowning

This 2020 report focused on the record-breaking tides and dangerous winds that caused destruction throughout Venice. Venetians worry their homes and cultural landmarks face increasing risk due to manmade climate change.

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[crystalrene]

I sent my son there through school five years ago because I knew I could not afford to go. He will always have those memories and he needed to see this beauty. He took so many pictures and talks about it to me years later. I did love the positivity in this video. Finding solutions and not giving up.

[egyptianqueen]

I'm grateful I was able to see Venice back in 2016 and capture the beauty of it while I still could.

[pic]

Scientists have been warning us about this for a very long time. Politicians and corporations don't give a hoot. All their concern is about Money, Money, Money. A ton of people are also still asleep. The good thing about it is that it doesn't discriminate.

[mencken]

We visited Venice several times, once at a high tide when there was water in the streets. Given the way Venice is built. This was inevitable, and it’s perhaps best to do as we did- try to visit it before it’s just a memory.

[DJWOLFLIVE]

I’ve been to Venice back in the 1980’s. It’s a beautiful city and I’m very sorry to hear about this.

[spvcegxd]

My heart sank when he said cities like LA will face unseen high tides. I’ve already seen it happening with my own eyes. San Pedro and Laguna Beach are being eroded very quickly by the rising water. There was a huge tide that breached from the shore into the streets of Newport Beach in 2020. That night I was walking along the coast of Hermosa beach and, the ocean brightly illuminated by a full moon, saw humongous waves barreling to shore from as far as the eye can see. I’ve never seen the ocean churn the way it did that night in my life. I’m not looking forward to how the ocean will reshape us when I’m an old man

[tinacatharinaeden]

The western part of the Netherlands had a very bad flood in 1953. It was s perfect storm. High tide, Storm and a full moon. My parent had 8 feet of water in the house. Right after, engineers started planning a way to protect the country from the North Sea. Complicated and costly systems were developed to close the waterways when a large storm hits. Being proactive pays off.

[allengina]

I was lucky to see Venice 10 years ago. The most amazing city i have been to.

[tweems]

People are not going to care until it affects them directly. I keep hearing about climate change but I'm not hearing solutions that the individual person can take to make a difference or ways to sell others on making personal changes to help.

[JorgeMartinez-ezjl]

I was just there December 2021 with hardly any tourist in town; it was magical. I love this city.

[lftpward]

Venice started sinking the day they started building it. When you build below sea level or in a swamp or on sand you will have issues with floods or unstable buildings.

[cherylnelson]

It's already happening in Florida. People living near the water have to pump water out of their neighborhoods.

[AccordionJoe]

The world is filled with abandoned cities. The climate is constantly changing, with or without cars, and that results in population shifts. Cities fail from drought, floods, volcanic eruptions, you name it. Venice is the latest city about to die. Such is life.

[owenbevans]

I was in Venice back in 1979 about a month after they shot the Clock Tower seen in the movie Moonraker. Back then the streets were flooded and they had elevated walkways up to you could move about somewhat dry. It was nothing new back then, already the first floors of the buildings were half submerged. They built the city on islands in a lagoon and the weight of the buildings over time started sinking the city.

[waltertaffs]

Prayers for the families who live in Venice Italy such a beautiful city as a US NAVY veteran who has visited this city back in 1975 I hope God can answer Prayers and find a soultion to this problem

[maxbrazil]

I went to Venice for the first time in 1982. The view from the water was spectacular. The we landed and it was like sticking your head down the hole of a port-a-potty. The stench of sewage and filth was ancient and nauseating.

[SoapinTrucker]

I got to visit Venice in 1990, loved it!!!! One of the BEST places to see in Italy! If you go there, be prepared to spend hours and hours taking pictures, and eating ;)

[weelass]

Venice will become a scuba diving destination in 100 years.

[blake]

For this storm they didn’t close the MOSE flood barrier system which would have prevented the flooding. The miscalculated it’s destructiveness and the storm came quickly. Hopefully the MOSE system will save Venice.

[veniceitalyvlog]

On that day 12th of November, the water was really high because the wind push from the south of Adriatic to the city of Venice. I saw the water rising rapidly that I can't even save our thing inside our house. It was terrible.