Whatever you want to call it ‘climate change’ a ‘cycle’ or a ‘hoax’ South Florida is in big trouble.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-miami-beach-surfside-building-collapse-438007b29e291eecb6ca953f0d55c248
https://apnews.com/article/florida-miami-beach-surfside-building-collapse-438007b29e291eecb6ca953f0d55c248
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William Shakespeare
The merchant of Venice
Oh I hope it disappears into Trumps A hole
Just sayin!!!!!
Check the data.
Time for Puerta Rico to step in, balance and all..
It turns out they’ve been massively pumping fresh water out of a deep aquifer.
Oops.
Depletion—from 1981 (!).
https://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1981/0050/report.pdf
Very small scale desalination but interesting reading...
https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/16/this-simple-water-desalination-system-from-mit-can-be-made-for-just-4/
I had a small-scale home RO system in a past home. Well water needed softening for everything, RO for cooking and drinking.
The meth gators will get them long before the ocean does. Or the gangster mosquitoes. Or the super hurricanes. Or their own government...
#FossilFuel air pollution & associated rising sea levels threaten us all. Humanity must stop burning #oil, #coal, and #gas before the atmosphere is ruined. Or we face the #EndOfTheWorld.
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We face a #ClimateCrisis now.
Followed by a #ClimateCatastrophe tomorrow.
You build high rise building on the sand near the ocean!!
Then say, "My building is sinking!" duh!!!!
Structural inspections should be done every 5 years. This area of Florida is sand and porous limestone.
Tectonically every place is shifting even if slowly. The codes will change again but still will fall behind what’s needed.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252012825/florida-gov-desantis-signs-bill-that-deletes-climate-change-from-state-law
It just seems like improper development full stop.
TBF Environmental factors identified as a contributing risk. It touched a nerve.
I live where they keep justifying exemptions for skyscrapers based on density and “walkable neighbourhoods”
All kinds issues cuz they’ve allowed 120 stories in a 4 story max zone 🙄
"But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand" --Matthew 7:26
https://www.vice.com/en/article/luxury-condos-hotels-florida-sinking/
When their homes sink into the sea, maybe they can find some hospitable Latino families inland with sofas they can sleep on.
It's not an act of climate or God, it's an act of greed.
Collapsing already. Just wait until a cat5 hurricane hits the east coast. That’ll be it…
But it's going to be okay because trump says that it means there will be more beachfront property. 🤔
*sinks into the ocean*