4 ms·
Becoming an issue? I would suggest anybody who thinks this is a novel problem examine the history of north-central China. Every few centuries flooding is bad e
by thrower123 5y ago
Becoming an issue?
I would suggest anybody who thinks this is a novel problem examine the history of north-central China. Every few centuries flooding is bad enough, and hydraulic infrastructure degrades enough that the Yellow river drastically changes its course.
- croes 5y agoDid you consider that China is just a recent example of flooding and the article is about flooding as such? The floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands just happened last week.
- thrower123 5y agoYou're just being inflammatory. And the European floods are the same problems as well. In the USA, every other year there's some awful looking flooding on the Mississippi or the Missouri or the Ohio, because some heavy snowmelt, or heavy rain, and then a levee breaks, and the people that built in the floodplain get swamped out. It's a thing that happens, and has always happened, and will always happen, so long as human beings build cities in floodplains.
- croes 5y agoThat's the problem. These floods didn't happen at the usual locations like Rhine and Moselle because they weren't caused by snowmelt but usual heavy rain. You are trivializing the problem, just like some trivialize climate change by saying that these also happened in the past. In both cases these things happened slower than now. The flood is one problem, the short time frame another and you are completely ignoring the latter.