SINKING, COLLAPSING, & FLOODING

Humans thought they knew better than Mother Nature, defying her natural landscape. So they drudged up land and built bridges to appease population growth, live, and prosper upon too, and changed where mighty waters are streamed to go through stones and cement pipes, and concrete dams. To chagrin London Bridge fell down, "My Fair Lady:, dams are being removed due to flooding and toxic sentiment contamination, and dredged land and buildings upon - are not only sinking, but collapsing. Destroying wetlands, killing beavers to near extinction and conveniently "relocating" them

Willow and Aider are their favorite foods! The original architect of the North American landscape: the beaver!

You may not recall, but you know islands, buildings, land masses, flood, lean, and collapse; never ever return to use. The Leaning Tower of Pisa, recently,
Surfside Condominium Tower, and in Baltimore, a street, a house and many more. Now it is conclusive that Baltimore, an the rest of the United States East and West Coasts must have a plan of weight loss. Buildings must go through a process: Complete Moratorium on new and modifying buildings, Assessment of all buildings and other structures (stadiums, statues, towers, water towers, incinerator water plants, dams..., weight, all manmade land (dredged up...) especially for homebuilding, moved and manmade bodies of water streams, lakes, reservoirs, brooks... and landfill sinking leakage tests from below water requiring leakage.

16 CLIMATE CHANGE TIPPING ELEMENTS & POINTS

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

The 9 Tipping Points:
1. Greenland Ice Sheet
2. Arctic Winter Sea Ice
3. Boreal Permafrost
4. West Antarctic Ice Sheet
5. East Antarctic Ice Sheet
6. East Antarctica Subglacial Basins
7. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
8. Labrador-Irminger Seas Convection
9. Amazon rainforest

9 of 16 Climate Tipping Points Activated

Globaïa - Stockholm Resilience Centre

The 7 Regional Tipping Elements:
1. Barents Sea Ice
2. Boreal Permafrost (abrupt thaw)
3. Extrapolar Glaciers4.
4. Northern Forest (southern dieback)
5. Northern Forest (northern expansion)
6. Low Latitude Coral Reefs
7. Sahel Vegetation and West African Monsoon

Because of the pace we are on, it will take 500 years to retrofit
28% Buildings
11% Building Materials
23% Transportation
32% Industry
- 7% Steel
6% Other
"A lot of people are aware of the need to electrify cars and vehicles, but there's a much smaller focus on buildings. And there's been very slow adoption of existing technologies, that the current rate and pace that we're at, it will actually take 500 years to retrofit every home in America. And that pace is way too slow."

Jack Meinzenbach

All your actions are tactical defense but do not address the root cause of the the climate change impacts. You need to start to monitor the 16 climate change tipping points and develop a strategic plan.

"Last year, scientists reported that the United States Atlantic Coast is dropping by several millimeters annually, with some areas, like Delaware, notching figures several times that rate. .... 74,000 square kilometers/29,000 square miles of the Atlantic Coast are exposed to subsidence of up to 2 millimeters (0.08 inches) a year, affecting up to 14 million people and 6 million properties. And over 3,700 square kilometers along the Atlantic Coast are sinking more than 5 millimeters annually. That's an even faster change than sea level rise, currently at 4 millimeters a year.

With each millimeter of subsidence, it gets easier for storm surges—essentially a wall of seawater, which hurricanes are particularly good at pushing onshore—to creep farther inland, destroying more and more infrastructure. .... In Jakarta, Indonesia... The city is planning a giant seawall to hold back the ocean, but it’ll be useless unless subsidence is stopped.

“Levees are heavy, and when they're set on land that's already subsiding, they can accelerate that subsidence. It definitely can impact the integrity of the protection system and lead to failures that can be catastrophic.' - Independent coastal resilience scientist Natalie Snider.

In Baltimore, Maryland, it's 826,000 people and 335,000 properties, while in NYC; Queens, Bronx, and Nassau, that leaps to 5 million people and 1.8 million properties. .... The time to act is now. Facing down subsidence is like treating a disease: You spend less money by diagnosing and treating the problem now, saving money later by avoiding disaster. 'This kind of data and the study could be an essential component of the health care system for infrastructure management. Like cancers—if you diagnose it early on, it can be curable. But if you are late, you invest a lot of money, and the outcome is uncertain.' - Manoochehr Shirzaei, Virginia Tech environmental security expert and PNAS article coauthor)."

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