Hello, thank you for reading this week’s Sunday post. This week’s topic will be on climate change and infrastructure. Last week President Biden signed onto a bipartisan group of senator’s infrastructure plan, which would invest $579 billion in building broadband internet, updating roads, and other projects. About $47 million is dedicated to “resilience”, or funds for climate projects, though most of Biden’s proposed climate projects in his own $4 trillion plan were left out. In the same week, a Miami condo suddenly collapsed. A 2018 report determined the building had significant cracks and deteriorated waterproofing. Other buildings in south Florida, vulnerable to sea level rise, can risk their foundations as salt water weakens concrete. Old buildings don’t have strong enough materials, so a crack can widen over time. And since funding for infrastructure is so poor, these buildings never get replaced. Miami, a city at low sea level sitting on porous limestone, is already experiencing signs of climate change-caused destruction. It is a daily occurrence to see sidewalks and roads flooding even on clear days, and this would only worsen with an expected 1.5 ft in sea level rise by 2040.
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