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It's just politicians shifting the blame on climate change. Makes you wonder why the Netherlands don't have record-breaking floods.
by petre 4y ago
It's just politicians shifting the blame on climate change. Makes you wonder why the Netherlands don't have record-breaking floods.
- nicbou 4y agoThe Netherlands are a rich developed nation. It helps. No monsoon there either.
- orbital-decay 4y agoWhat also helps is that they started building dams centuries ago.
- ignoramous 4y agoWith the loot from East Indies?
- pvaldes 4y agoProbably. You only need mud and wood and to stop whining about the chilling cold to start. Concrete and iron can come later. I don't see many gems encrusted in the dams in any case. Do they use cars and fridges in East Indies?
- dekhn 4y agoThe Netherlands has some of the best water policy and technology in the world and they staked the land of their country on that. But, they did have a number of floods and they continue to be at risk for out-of-distribution flooding.
- boruto 4y agoI wonder why pakistan doesn't have a sea barrier like Netherlands
- CapitalistCartr 4y agoThis isn't flooding from the sea. Such a wall would make this worse.
- arinlen 4y ago> This isn't flooding from the sea. Such a wall would make this worse. Dams have been extensively used for flood control, and some dam designs are explicitly designed for that specific purpose. Planning them to make things better doesn't make things worse.
- boredpudding 4y agoWe literally had that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_European_floods#Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_European_floods#Netherlan...