Such a powerful image (click here) - the Minister from Tuvalu in the South Pacific delivered his speech to #COP26 from the sea to illustrate the crisis they face with rising sea levels
It is not just small islands that are facing this devastating reality, it is a problem in the USA as well. Little Havana is the perfect place for Florida Dems to make their case known about the climate crisis and infrastructure dollars.
December 21, 2018By Johnathan Hahn
...Those roots, (click here) according to him, are in jeopardy as communities like Little Haiti (the English for Ti Ayiti) wither amid Miami's gentrification crisis and lack of infrastructure investment and affordable housing, all of which are getting worse because of climate change.
"We're sitting here at the cultural center right next to the Mache Ayisyen," he says. "We have concentrated our entire energy to make sure that we are here every day, that other people are here every day, because we are being erased."
"Every aspect of our lives today is affected by climate change," Clarkson says. "I don't care what the problem is. It traces back to it. That's what people don't understand. They see it as something that is separate, but it is not."
South Florida faces an existential crisis from global warming unlike that of almost any other place in the United States. Its geology is uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise, which is poised to inundate low-lying neighborhoods across the region. At the same time, climate change will dramatically amplify the social inequities—income disparity, lack of public transportation, and limited affordable housing—that have long plagued communities here.
The waters are rising in South Florida, and simply building a seawall isn't going to solve the climate crisis that's coming, or the socioeconomic one that's already here.
June 1, 2021
By Nialli Patrick Walsh
The City of Miami has published a draft of its Stormwater Master Plan; (click here) a $3.8 billion plan to be enacted over the next 40 years, seeking to mitigate the impact of rising sea levels on the city. The plan sets out a wide portfolio of measures, from stormwater pumps and sea walls to more novel approaches such as floating neighborhoods and streets converted into canals.
The report sets out both short and long-term strategies for the city’s defense from rising sea levels. Near-term resiliency measures, with a 20-to-50-year planning horizon, include both structural and non-structural actions, encompassing everything from infrastructure construction to reformed insurance models. The plan proposes an upgrade to building code strategies, including minimum structure finish-floor levels informed by predicted water surface levels, and a requirement for piled or stilted structures, both buildings and roadways, to consider future sea level rise....
