Thread by @CLEOInstitute

@TheEconomist- economist.com/united-states/…

-Miami’s Submarine Future-

“Miami has no answer to this inundation from without and within. A seawall, analogous to the Netherlands’ dykes, could make groundwater flooding worse, by stopping it draining away.” [🧵] #Miami

“best course is a medley of partial fixes that include heavy investment in practical solutions, such extending sewer system; long-term planning for higher sea-levels, rethinking building codes & the habitability of parts of Miami & aggressive steps to mitigate global emissions.”

“Yet none of these is happening to anything like the necessary degree, because of Miami’s third disaster: an American governing system that appears incapable of adapting to climate-induced disasters estimated to cost $2trn a year by the end of the century.”

…”A rational state would scramble to save it. Yet the policy response to its inundations is defined by short-termism, vested interests, inadequate resources, a Hobbesian scrum of federal, state, county and city agencies, and denial.”

“Starting w/the obvious, @FloridaGOP since 1999, are an impediment to cutting emissions…previous governor, @SenRickScott a climate-change denier; current one @GovRonDeSantis, is better…yet…he dismissed “things like global warming” as “pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things”

“That encapsulates not merely the right’s lack of seriousness about #climate but the anti-government attitude that has driven it to abandon policymaking generally.” - For more read on… 👇🏽

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