Hurricane Sandy highlighted the vulnerability of our infrastructure to
extreme weather. New York’s subways were
severely damaged and travel to and from New England by train or airplane was
delayed or cancelled. People were
without power for days, weeks for some.
This is only one example we could draw from 2012. Extreme
heat and drought troubled much of the nation this summer.
It is time to start thinking about how we live with our environment in
new ways. This is not simply a matter of
climate change and the effects of human activity on climate and weather. It is about what kind of lives we want to
live, what kind of infrastructure we need to live it, what we consider
acceptable in terms of infrastructure reliability, water and air quality, transportation
methods and routes, locus of control, and the complex of manmade and
natural systems we live in on local, regional, national and global scales. Some are even seeing
opportunities in what others are seeing as blunt problems needing heaving
engineering answers.
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If there is good Infrastructure to buiild up, so may be there could be not so much effect..
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