fema projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Another twenty-seven thousand will be injured, and the agency expects that it will need to provide shelter for a million displaced people, and food and water for another two and a half million. “This is one time that I’m hoping all the science is wrong, and it won’t happen for another thousand years,” Murphy says.
Yeah, anytime you pick a fight with nature, you're eventually going to lose. Especially when it involves water. And structures maintained by the government during late stage capitalism.
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although the new yorker is a bourgie lib publication, it also serves up lots of quality doom porn
That's it? Damn that's really nothing, considering.
it really does, I'd read the Cascadia article before but didn't know about this, thanks for sharing
I am somehow simultaneously impressed by the effort, ingenuity and hubris of the whole thing, everything is extraordinary
I was wondering what other human lifespan-time disasters could be lurking after learning about something as catastrophic as the ARkStorm only recently
Yeah, anytime you pick a fight with nature, you're eventually going to lose. Especially when it involves water. And structures maintained by the government during late stage capitalism.