My favorite type of climate change my local county did to itself (we made the streams and canals flow better so we don’t flood. A lot of it was litter removal. Damn project took decades and will need maintenance) like, it doesn’t have to be bad,
So instead of the historical flooding and deposition of sediment, the flood water goes downstream? I don’t know if that’s necessarily better, as described. Flood water needs to spread out, slow down, and soak in. Else it creates worse problems elsewhere.
fortunately downstream is the ocean. the sediment issue on the farmland, that’s the one that we’re not sure about, but there are a few hundred thousand people living in the floodplain and fewer people get fed off that farmland (which hasn’t been doing great in the last 70 years since… well that’s a history lesson and a farming lesson. long story short, if people have been doing something for a very, very long time, it’s worth thinking about the consequences a long time before you change it. but since they already did, you kind of have to play the hand you’re dealt, not the hand that was dealt twenty years ago.
What’s funny is thinking about all the people that used to try to say that climate change won’t happen for hundreds of years.
Shows you how much those people knew.
I mean, those are the same people who say “we had warm days during summer back then, too”
My favorite type of climate change my local county did to itself (we made the streams and canals flow better so we don’t flood. A lot of it was litter removal. Damn project took decades and will need maintenance) like, it doesn’t have to be bad,
So instead of the historical flooding and deposition of sediment, the flood water goes downstream? I don’t know if that’s necessarily better, as described. Flood water needs to spread out, slow down, and soak in. Else it creates worse problems elsewhere.
fortunately downstream is the ocean. the sediment issue on the farmland, that’s the one that we’re not sure about, but there are a few hundred thousand people living in the floodplain and fewer people get fed off that farmland (which hasn’t been doing great in the last 70 years since… well that’s a history lesson and a farming lesson. long story short, if people have been doing something for a very, very long time, it’s worth thinking about the consequences a long time before you change it. but since they already did, you kind of have to play the hand you’re dealt, not the hand that was dealt twenty years ago.