Destroyed Communities & Climate Migrants: Climate Change Upends Small Towns | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2024
- Hurricanes, storms, and wildfires are persuading Americans to abandon their homes as nature lashes out against human-made climate change. Over three million Americans have already moved due to risk of flooding, and climate experts say some 13 million coastal residents will be displaced by the end of this century. CBS News correspondent and author Jonathan Vigliotti has reported from the front lines of climate change. He explains to Hari Sreenivasan how American towns might become more resilient and why it's crucial to listen to the science.
Originally aired on April 16, 2024
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I live in western Oregon, where the summers are longer and a lot dryer than usual. There are a lot of trees, especially conifers, in forests where the floor is covered in plant life that can really add fuel to our fires. Even though the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire was well east of me, I still smelled the smoke and had ashfall on my car for days. Seeing the destruction, firsthand, was a sobering and sad experience. I'm also 68 years old and believe that us old folks need to care more for our children and grandchildren than ourselves.
I live on the Southside of Chicago.
The illegals invading is my biggest problem. The weather here is fine!
A little late for that, that ship sailed decades ago
Forest fires and wildfires are 100% natural.
@@imperialmotoring3789 the rate of which oceans are warming and ice is melting isn’t
@@imperialmotoring3789 Predictable comment on a discussion on climate from a guy called "imperialmotoring". "Illegals" aren't causing climate catastophes; go find the right video discussion.
Our home and business are south of Paradise. The speed of climate change changes over the last ten years have been eye opening. We lost 300, large, 2nd growth, ponderosa pines on our place a few years ago to a beetle kill made possible by record heat and drought. We’ve never had to run our evaporative cooler at night before, the air is clean so you can open windows, but we did last year for two weeks. Car insurance and electricity have doubled, food is up by 1/3rd, insurance for home and business buildings has quadrupled. A fire in 2022 burned 127 homes in our town. 40% of folks had no insurance. Many of the folks who lost their homes were retirees. Building materials have increased in price by 1/3rd. And, I’m getting phone calls and letters from vulture, corporate investors who want to profit off of the pain and struggles of individual citizens. And here is the kicker. Climate change and the resulting droughts, heatwaves, fires and floods, is caused by all of us burning fossil fuels that are produced by a handful of unethical companies and countries. Exxon and the Saudis are making record profits. Yet your grandparents who just lost their homes of fifty years are left paying the bill!
So your evidence for climate change is what has happened to you in the last ten years, not based on what has happened on the entire planet for 4.5 billion years. If you had a little more perspective you would realise the Earth is currently in an ice age. The permanent ice at our poles being a big clue. You might also realise that at only 450 parts per million of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is nearly the lowest its ever been, averaging between 2,000-4,000 ppm for when life has been on the planet.
Great post. People need to hear these stories and information to get them to realize we need to transition away from fossil fuels to renewables incl. green hydrogen for fuel cells for transportation. The longer we wait the harder it's going to be financially and the worse the climate will get.
Every watch history of dinosaurs and evolution and such? The Earth changes a LOT before humans were even here, let alone automobiles.
Let's stop with this "climate change" hoax. This is nothing but a government power grab, and a Marxist one at that.
I think you need to connect a few dots who's using the fossil fuels that the companies are producing?? For decades the most most popular vehicles in America are big SUVs and trucks it's the people that are failing to heed the warning signs. We have responsibility to act but we're not doing it.
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I enjoy my car collection. The 440 4bbl is my favorite engine.
Last i remember USA is a free country. I can drive whatever I want to drive. We are not under a fascist socialist system yet so I am not going to have what I enjoy taken from me.
I also love my gas stove, and natural gas fires my boilers in my building. Imagine how much it would cost to convert to electric and how much it would cost to keep my family warm!
"Fossil fuels" is a misnomer. These are natural fuels. If you could invent a way to run the world on rainbows that would be wonderful so maybe you should get busy on that instead of allowing government to take away our freedoms?
We moved to the Great Lakes in '18 as part of our climate action plan. And we know we beat the rush.
Listen to scientists. .not lobbiests and partisan Hannities
You need to listen to scientists that do not have a political slant. Climate Change is not human caused.
See the suburban cars everywhere and see the poor without a choice.
Sadly, I think that many people lack the means to make the improvements to their homes, such as the red roofs which could potentially save them. Even removing trees from the property that are too close is very costly.
What about the Blue roofs I. Maui , those homes remain
"Disillusioned: Benjamin Harold" explains that current generations are putting the bill that past generations have done: ignoring science, redlining on housing, expanding the suburbs (more black asphalts over natural dirt) with racial intentions, and keep building homes and roads (asphalts) inside the mountains and coastlines with increasing urban heat island. Over the century with industrialization, many real estate industries and business have ignored this and kept on pushing and still pushing it.
Modern nature don't have parties (democrats, independents, or republicans) and react to how all of us behave in this earth. People must not depend on technology and engineering but re-study and reexamine how earth has been and how to take care the earth.
Industrialisation is what has helped millions of people out of poverty. Your idea of what the natural world is, is a fantasy. In nature humans live in poverty, have few prospects, many die young, have poor health and have very short lives.
the earth will be fine - its about human survival - earth will shake us off and continue
13 million is wishful thinking it will be ten times that number displace in the next decade let alone the end of the century.
Beavers are essential to the environment. After many years of culling, we now know better.
It should never have been done in the first place. Culling living beings because they are a nuisance is like self -immolation.
THe mighty beaver our national animal in Canada. Be a bit wary of what you wish for, they are very industrious fellows and their priorities are not people priorities. In the Greater
Toronto area as a result of a hurricane 70 years ago, river valleys that run out to the lake are parks as a flooding control system, you are not allowed to build in them. Yesterday walking along the creek the kids came across a huge beaver almost as big as our dog(40lb), don't know how it got there but as stated enterprising chaps. I don't know what it is like in US cities but the wild animals are moving back, we have squirrels(no surprise), possums, rats, skunks, and raccoons come through our back yard, hawks in our tree, with ducks on the street and the geese on top of supermarkets. This in a city of 600k and part of Greater Toronto. Incidently the beaver was not particularly bothered by people being there, just when on eating shoots.
Ducks Unlimited in early 1900s first goal was to bring back beavers...to bring back endangered ducks.
I'm definitely concerned and planning to move to higher ground, and inland in the next 5 years.
The lighting on Hari is non-existent!
Oh that poor limp plant!
9:50 When hurricane Michael hit Mexico Beach, Florida the area had one of those houses. Everything for blocks around it was completely or mostly destroyed except for one unscathed home. Which cost double what the ordinary costs would be.
The whole planet is effed
Great talk, but damn, that guy's fiddleleaf fig is *suffering*.
According to Fed chair, Powell, the reason for persistent inflation is climate change. The fires. The more severe storms. All increasing insurance premiums.
There needs to be a short term (emergency action plan), intermediate (upgrades to infrastructure) and long (relocate) plans to mediate these issues. Climate change will not stop and our coastal, arid and flood prone places WILL NOT be liveable in the long term. The comment on lack of insurance should be a RED FLAG given that the insurance industry has studied the science and business end of the issue - money is their priority and they know a lost cause based upon science! As such, short term upgrades (roofs, landscaping, walls, etc.) may get us to the next event, it is not a long term solution. There needs to be a phased approach to mediate the issue while planning is completed and implemented. What has happened is that business interests (re developers) understand that some politicians lack the will to resolve issues given that they may not get elected - voters will not like being told that their house will not be rebuilt for the 6th time and developers will not like being told that they cannot keep sucking money from government backed insurance. Plan, Plan Plan needs to be added to the Location, Location, Location mantra.
"There is no New Frontier we gotta make it here" If you call it Paradise you Kiss it Goodbye "
How much climate denial is actually denial? A lot of people sre earning lots of money from investments in fossil fuels - climate "denial" is actually a delay tactic to phasing out fossil fuels for energy production.
Adaptation is great, but we as a civilization need to be more concerned with transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewables including hydrogen for transportation, so we can end what will in time become an endless nightmare.
Electricity will not replace natural gas and natural oil. What we will have is full government control of shortages and rationing, which is the endless nightmare.
@@imperialmotoring3789 Which is ironic given how the mantra of the science denial crowd is how the main purpose of the climate change "hoax" is ultimately to give the government an excuse to take full control.
??? Whats with the Red roofs? Red tiles or colourbond roof?
Probably ceramic tiles, or aluminum made to look like ceramic. Steel roofs and hardie-plank siding, minimum for fire country.
Now, we can question: Is places like Spain becoming hostile for human life?
Spain has had extreme heat, extreme droughts and now their coastlines are impacted with extreme marine heat. So any plants grown in the area are under drought. Any species in the ocean are reported to die, like dolphins, fish, clamps and even seaweed meadows.
This is the current trend in many areas around the world.
Lack of water will be getting much worse due to losing mountain glaciers. And due to heat (1C rise take 7% of the humidity). And the rains that comes more rarely has more water to pour as a devastating heavy rains that are followed with floods.
We can question also: How long we do have until climate is erasing entire human race?
Small town infrastructure for roads and drainage, budgets depleted just trying to repair erosion from extreme storms in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Ohio.
Will the environmental changes in housing areas stop D.E.W. from destroying an area?
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When people observe and participate in nature we can see ways to live in a natural state of chaos.
Currently the percentage of Affordable housing to affordable housing is backwards - there is a need for 75% of the housing to become affordable- and whatever to the other sickly Rick
Every new development I notice - has 25% or less allocated to affordable housing - the rest are luxury apartments etc -regardless
We are all in for some serious devastation- no matter how far inland you think you are -
The wind is everywhere -
None of us will outsmart the coming weather.
The weather
My small town family? Some people can see the good where I see someone else.
Instead of providing cohesion and unity amongst the citizens, the plight of everyday Americans seems to be a non-factor amidst the neo-liberal economic usurpation of of American democracy. We the People have unwittingly become mere "externalities" within the machinations of our power elite.
whos got the time to read all these books
What would Wally and Larry say!
The Earth changes are here
Thank you. We suffer climate denial in Poland, too. You know, Duda & the Populists!
The insurance industry is one of the dark industries that we could do away with, before all the agents turn into AI bots.
You don't want people to insure their health, homes, businesses or cars?
I think we could do away with Marxism, that would be nice!
Well why not move back in to Paradise? All the fuel there has already been burned.
the planet RED KACHINA is here again has nothing to do with factories has to do with your FREQUENCY
I live below sea level nest to the Atlantic and gulf its actually called low country so its kinda hard to grasp this narrative. Especially since most of small towns own theyre own utility infrastructure and intentionally only adopt enough corporate work to not allow outside influence or control over the humble small or medium density community..
Now that quadrupled logistics with computation access to buy ,sell and operate just like any large city its the new gold land for the middle of nowhere America
Beavers rule🙌
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What a bunch of nonsense.
You obviously have zero background in science.
@pkerber I'm a microbiologist and you're a Communist..
Survival of the fittest playing out real time. We should be relocating not rebuilding, but being stuck on stupid is often mistaken as bravery or courage. I lived through one hurricane, George's in 1998, while stationed at Keesler AFB, and that was one too many. But you keep building homes out of toothpicks and paper.
Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand’s, The Fountainhead, was an architect who believed that a building should be an extension of nature or the natural environment. That’s what this talk makes me think of. Go Beaver’s!!!