Adaptation is a necessity.

[Altair]

The UK is once again hurt by floods and storms. If hilly Britain hadn't destroyed so many of its forests on the hills, it would have had more natural buffers that could retain the water (and also provide a buff to biodiversity!).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...haos-across-uk

Humans can be as inventive as they want, and come up with as many expensive civic engineering projects as they want, building dikes and dams and other large constructions to keep nature at bay... but at the end of the day nothing is as efficient in protecting our homes from floods than forests and marshlands. People's negative attitude towards nature, one of fighting it, is ultimately causing a lot of these troubles.

you should look up that huge Chinese dam, China's Three Gorges Dam
it's one of the few man-made structures on Earth that's visible to the naked eye from space, according to NASA.

people are saying that when it fails, millions will die

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ch...20downs tream.

[Altair]

Dams are an affront to nature, especially large dams:

How dams damage rivers https://www.americanrivers.org/threa...damage-rivers/

Large dams damage health https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/A_Commu..._Damage_Health

Large dams across the world have been damaging not just entire ecosystems but also human communities.
See Amazon dams or the Aswan dam in Nubia, Egypt.

''Break the dam! Release the river!''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x7M...nnel=KelmainPS

Dams be damned!

To get on track... let us use PLANTS to protect civilization, not construction after construction!

[Altair]

Millions of people around the world are facing disaster from flood, droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather, as governments fail to take the measures needed to adapt to the impacts of climate breakdown, the UN has warned.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...kdown-un-warns

The article further states the very obvious truth that nature-based solutions should be prioritised, such as planting trees, restoring mangroves, and regenerating land.

The beauty of climate adaptation is that you can directly tackle these issues as well as give biodiversity and liveability a plus. While climate mitigation is important, you do not create these other pluses with it. Nature-based solutions should be given much more exposure and recognition.

[Challenger007]

Originally Posted by Altair

The UK is once again hurt by floods and storms. If hilly Britain hadn't destroyed so many of its forests on the hills, it would have had more natural buffers that could retain the water (and also provide a buff to biodiversity!).

Humans can be as inventive as they want, and come up with as many expensive civic engineering projects as they want, building dikes and dams and other large constructions to keep nature at bay... but at the end of the day nothing is as efficient in protecting our homes from floods than forests and marshlands. People's negative attitude towards nature, one of fighting it, is ultimately causing a lot of these troubles.

Well, you understand that most are more interested in setting up something, pouring out some crazy thousands of tons of concrete, than just abandoning some regular buildings in favor of preserving the health of the planet. Now all of humanity is raking the consequences of these decisions.

[Altair]

Originally Posted by Challenger007

Well, you understand that most are more interested in setting up something, pouring out some crazy thousands of tons of concrete, than just abandoning some regular buildings in favor of preserving the health of the planet. Now all of humanity is raking the consequences of these decisions.

Things have to change..

Start small. Check your own town/neighborhood and try to get involved in local decision making. Together we are stronger.

[Altair]

These kind of initiatives are pretty much in line with the rest..

Reforestation projects should include tree diversity targets, too

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/re...oo-commentary/

Just planting a lot of trees isn't enough if it's all more of the same. Diversity of tree species improves overall biodiversity, limits impact of pests and disease, and also creates living spaces for people that are more attractive.

Nature... In its purest form, it's most natural beauty, of any kind, is the most amazing thing anyone will ever witness. Nature does not need man, for it survives as it has always done, as it always will. Man was given a brain that can "think" and act upon those thoughts. And that gift and those thoughts were abused. I used to stand and look at a weed growing out of a wall at the back of my shop. It had small purple flowers . I think that weed knew I was the only person that would appreciate it's beauty, and not pull it out of the wall.

[bobjob]

Originally Posted by Altair

The UK is once again hurt by floods and storms. If hilly Britain hadn't destroyed so many of its forests on the hills, it would have had more natural buffers that could retain the water (and also provide a buff to biodiversity!).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...haos-across-uk

Humans can be as inventive as they want, and come up with as many expensive civic engineering projects as they want, building dikes and dams and other large constructions to keep nature at bay... but at the end of the day nothing is as efficient in protecting our homes from floods than forests and marshlands. People's negative attitude towards nature, one of fighting it, is ultimately causing a lot of these troubles.

A lot of today's problems are the result of actions taken - mistakes made - over many decades. Now there's a growing awareness that many of the changes need to be rolled back or in some other way mitigated.

A piecemeal approach will not be effective and large-scale and/or national plans need to be developed to address issues such as flooding. Meteorological experts warn us regularly that storms will become more intense, rainfall from them much greater than in the past as global climate change intensifies. It's pretty easy to see the problems, much less easy to find workable solutions.

The UK faces similar problems to other countries and its resources will be stretched very thin trying to deal with the global changes underway. And to mitigate those negative global changes will need co-operation between nations and countries at an unprecedented level.

I hope that can happen and I hope it will happen even though I will probably be around only long enough to see the beginnings of any such co-operation. If countries and nations don't co-operate then the earth's future is bleak... Or rather humankind's future is bleak and that of many other species.

This earth will go on but it may become a place where humankind will have to battle just to survive day-to-day.

[Native spirit]

I have always said Lessons were not learned when more places started to flood

they still built their horrid concrete buildings.knowing the land was a flood plane.

then they say why are you not doing anything.

My late husband dealt with disasters Floodings bomb threats fires etc

And the councils were warned then of what was to come. but they thought putting a sticking plaster over a crack would work,

they were told then to stop cutting trees down but they did nothing.

only now are they planting trees again.

its not to bad where i live we have woods forests mountains.

But the Earth will survive even after the people are gone

Namaste