In “The City and the Sea,” Meera Subramanian also discusses something relatively similar to what Jacobsen argues in his article. Meera Subramanian, an award-winning journalist who has been published in the New York Times, Nature, discusses the effects that Hurricane Sandy had on New York City. She specifically talks about one section of New York called Rockaway beach. She goes there to find out how they are preparing for storms such as Hurricane Sandy. Richard George, a local artist that had no experience or knowledge about trees, dune ecology, or sea surges, was given money so he could plant trees. By doing this to Rockaway beach, it created some sort of ecosystem where the trees and the grass collect the sand and create a sand dune so the
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In this article she discusses how the city of Miami is undergoing floods on a predictable basis. Kolbert describes climate change on our …show more content…
By installing various underground pumps that will suck the water out and dump them into the bays, this temporarily solves the problems, but sooner or later, there will be too much water to suck out. This shows how humanity needs to find a way to solve this problem or else millions of peoples’ homes will be destroyed and will have nowhere to live. Cities like Miami, where the elevation is only around six feet above sea level, will be easily flooded by the rising sea levels. Thus, this proves how society needs to find a solution to climate change. However, many people still believe that climate change isn’t real. For example, Marco Rubio, Florida’s junior senator, stated the following “‘What I said is, humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us believe, for the following reason: I believe that climate is changing because there’s never been a moment where the climate is not changing.’” (Kolbert 133). This shows how ignorant society still is to this day and refuses the concept that humanity is the one who is causing global warming and the sea levels to rise. That is why society should recognize problems like this and should do something that will help in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful chemicals that will affect climate
In this article she discusses how the city of Miami is undergoing floods on a predictable basis. Kolbert describes climate change on our …show more content…
By installing various underground pumps that will suck the water out and dump them into the bays, this temporarily solves the problems, but sooner or later, there will be too much water to suck out. This shows how humanity needs to find a way to solve this problem or else millions of peoples’ homes will be destroyed and will have nowhere to live. Cities like Miami, where the elevation is only around six feet above sea level, will be easily flooded by the rising sea levels. Thus, this proves how society needs to find a solution to climate change. However, many people still believe that climate change isn’t real. For example, Marco Rubio, Florida’s junior senator, stated the following “‘What I said is, humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us believe, for the following reason: I believe that climate is changing because there’s never been a moment where the climate is not changing.’” (Kolbert 133). This shows how ignorant society still is to this day and refuses the concept that humanity is the one who is causing global warming and the sea levels to rise. That is why society should recognize problems like this and should do something that will help in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful chemicals that will affect climate