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As someone living in Belgium, less than an hour away from various places that days ago experienced their worst floods ever and with friends who lost their homes
by scrollaway 5y ago
As someone living in Belgium, less than an hour away from various places that days ago experienced their worst floods ever and with friends who lost their homes… I wonder what the hell China has to do with those. Go on?
The article may talk about China but this is a general problem.
- lexa1979 5y agoChina also got floods 2 days ago. (Hi from Hotton ! ...with dry feet now)
- selimthegrim 5y agoHow are the melons doing or is that just Hami?
- scrollaway 5y agoHi Hotton! I was in your area just a couple weeks ago. HMU for coffee if you're ever in Brussels or Mechelen. Email in my profile :)
- ralfn 5y agoIt's because China isn't white. So people first look for explanations how it's about them not being proper white protestants and doing it all wrong. Here in the Netherlands we always had this problem and we engineered around it. We were prepared for a once in a 100 year event (based on models on the 90'ties). Our current calculations however suggest this will happen once every couple of years now. It is the reason we have 0 casualties thus far. But all those investments we made only made economic sense in the assumption it would solve the problem for a very long time.. It looks like to prevent property damage (and the emotional price of not feeling safe in your own house) we would need to spend that money again and again. Unclear if it will be enough, because the as a society we lost the ability to predict the climate changes . It's too chaotic now. We need more datapoints