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Generally, deteriorating civil engineering structures is a huge looming crisis for the U.S. Sprawling suburbs dependent on perpetual growth to fund repairs to
by avidiax 5y ago
Generally, deteriorating civil engineering structures is a huge looming crisis for the U.S.
Sprawling suburbs dependent on perpetual growth to fund repairs to their streets & utilities, small economically-contracting towns dependent on highways and bridges that are falling apart, 15,000 "high hazard" dams to maintain: we are going to have to either give up on some of it, or pay for decades of missing upkeep.
- cyanydeez 5y agospecifically for florida, their entire foundation is swiss cheese. climate change will hasten their detriorating condition. their farmers will do the same. some structural declines will take dcades, but id expect this like we now expect more frequent and stronger hurricanes. even then, the political climate is just toxic by itself