Related to this is that we insist on farming flood plains, and then "protecting" them with levees. Nature already has a perfectly good system to deal with exce

Related to this is that we insist on farming flood plains, and then "protecting" them with levees. Nature already has a perfectly good system to deal with excess rain. Rivers expand to fill flood plains to buffer the excess water. Unfortunately we've blocked nature from doing this by building levees and otherwise channelizing rivers. We've "gotten away with it" in large part, but ultimately somewhere is going to flood as climate events get more extreme. We'd be better off choosing to let farm fields flood a little on semi-regular occasions than building levees to the point that flood stage raises even higher and it's a complete catastrophe when a levee breaches near a city or town.