It’s could be a HUGE economy driver. And for the entire continent, not just the U.S.

@@leonwilliams9589 Oh dawg I'm totally for it, I love this stuff. We spend so much money on dumb stuff, we literally have so much money here we could rebuild the whole damn country. I feel like people are against it for some reason. They could spend 5 Trillion dollars and I still would be up for more.

@@Dan-fz5nn I live in FL and since the Everglades are turning into a much bigger problem than what they’re worth (invasive species & domestic) i think we should spend the next 100 years digging it out completely and using the substrate to raise other parts of the state or make a natural surf dampener and sea wall. There are a ton of mega projects that would benefit the entire region. There are almost 600 million people that live in North America. I think together, we should manifest some destiny on this continent we all share. There is so much we’re capable of and I feel like if we were really serious about building a better future for our descendants (comes across different if you don’t say “children”), then we should be looking at these grand ideas that really take everyone’s dedication and effort.

American is too distracted by politics, tribalism and trivialities. Plus America doesn’t have the money, since corporations and the rich won’t pay their fair share of taxes.

We got to get God back in this country before we can do anything good again in the US

Thought the same thing

Same same! Inyalowda na gonya learn

They did their homework. They likely based it on studies.

Omg yes! You're right, and I love that hard sci-fi show one of the greatest ever made!

@@JasonB808 Yes, including how realistic it was, but their were some movements of the ship's they got wrong

Interesting, because that part of Manhattan, is where the seat of the Dutch (New Amsterdam) used to be. Anyway, in this sea wall project, there's multiple Dutch people and companies involved.

That's a super interesting proposal. Kind of similar to what Venice built with the Mose system.

Your solution protects the poor and middle class, while the Manhattan seawall primarily protects the rich. Easy to see why they chose the seawall.

As a person from the Netherlands, I think the dutch would build a variant of the Oosterscheldekering in the upperbay, and they would close the arthur kill with a variant of the Maeslantkering just below the Outerbridge Crossing. And they would make a long dike from long island to the mainland with te likes of the hollandse ijsselkering in the middel so that the dike wont block naval traffic. all of these will also help the backland of the hudson river during storm tide.

This has been proposed

Ah thanks so much! Everything in moderation haha

Anyone who thinks the areas shown are better now than they would be needs a good smack

@@jmow-t5023 I can't speak for the specific people in this case, but a lot of times people will demand things that they have not be torn down in favor of some promised dream that is likely to get bogged down in budget issues and not be delivered. "We could have something better if we tear this down" sounds good until you've had things torn down with those kinds of promises and not built back as promised. We've seen a lot of these projects in the US where, after the public sacrificed something like a park or historic district for a project, the money wasn't there and the city compromised it away selling the taken land to development projects or the land sat idle and unusable for years. And we've also seen politicians pull insanely unethical and sometimes even outright illegal things to hijack projects into their own visions. Chicago's mayor Richard Daley tore up an airport in the middle of the night to push through his own airport scheme. In my own hometown, governor Warren Hearnes demolished my great-great grandmother's home in the middle of the night (kind of a running theme with politicians) before a historic building status could go into effect for the building so he could build a parking lot there for a nearby state office building. One that floods every year, often for weeks at a time. We also had governor Jay Nixon pull a last minute scheme before he left office to have a park built and named after himself in land bought for other purposes (the moment he was out of office the park was renamed so he didn't get to keep his self-aggrandizement, but damage done - ironically we have too many parks here that see maintenance costs but not public use). And it's also a 10% reduction in usable space in an already crowded area. There's a lot with this that I can totally understand why they aren't happy with the plan. I'm not going to say they're right because I don't and will never live in a city that densely overpopulated, but their concerns aren't without reason.

The podcast will give you a lot more 😉

Sea rise is NOT happening. It flooded way before “climate change” became popular and you are just projecting increased storms and sea level just because Al Gore said so. You live on a “Landfill” that was not built high enough. Tough shit.

Actually, sea rise is NOT happening, but you keep swallowing that steady diet of looney pills.

@@MondoMiami💀 it’s common sense when ice melts liquid water replaces it . You never seen ice melt?

@@Voidslayer791 yeah. Except that the ice shelf is actually growing, not shrinking. Stop ending your research at the headlines and dig a little. It’s weather. It’s never static. The climate has always been changing, and if you think the government can change that, I’d like to talk to you about a bridge I have for sale.

@@MondoMiami its always changing but we're accelerating it ;_;. And only Antarctica's ice shelf is growing while the Artic shrinks

add global warming, all part of the cycle. It's only going to get wilder..

We love it. Don't you go anywhere.

It's up to you...

@@donc-m4900 You get it 🏆

😂😂 Fr tho I think NYC might manage, they are the US biggest and top richest cities in not just the country but the world and a larger population to pull monetary and human resources to this than Venice

@@arl4422 sure, but they fall prey to budget cuts in anything that isn't everyday visible and deferred infrastructure maintenance same as everyone else, because people is people, and financial jobs are extremely good at not paying taxes 🤣

Always wondered why Venice built that mechanical barrier instead of adjusting the ground floor levels like in past centuries, either by abandoning lower floors or by jacking up buildings by 3 to 10 meters from below using trained technical divers and good equipment .

Venice's gates need power to lift. But sea wall gates can be self activating. Just leave them with air inside as the water rises the buoyancy will slide the gates up. Much lower maintenance. But won't block the views unlike a conventional seawall when not needed.

@@Taverius that is true, perhaps this project won't achieve it's full success and even fail or perhaps new yorkers will pull through and make big sacrifices for their city. Time will only tell.

No money in fighting the cause.

Pay more taxes and climate change stops

people can't afford to live in the city, climate is the least of their concerns

@@bamahama707 No short term profits you mean

The cause is the ground subsiding. Don't build structures on sand.

We have similiar issues in underground Houston when it rains bad, unfortunately in concrete cities I don't see it ever changing.

the flooding comes form rain, not the sea.

New York City needs to get more aggressive about raising the city against flood. That effort is going to be very hard to do and take decades. The plans need to be for the worst flooding in 2060 on, not for flooding up to 2020.

No. No more geese in NY harbor. Bird strikes tend to cause plane crashes.

@@GhenAurwinain’t that only happen once?

@@GhenAurwinI really don’t think that’s a major problem at all

Then democrats will invite millions of refugees. Back to square one... TOO MANY PEOPLE FOR DRAINAGE 😕

@@epcode5121 have you seen Manhattan? First of all downtown is the financial district, very little residential areas, and if there are… I assure u only wealthy people can afford that. Immigrants are queens and Bronx thing, definitely not manhattan. Please try to educate urself 😅

That's a pretty bold plan!

Thank you so much 🙌

Same here

Well I hope the city gets better but there's really no more room for growth, I guess you can knock down some older buildings and build a taller one but every square inch of land is taken up so it's hard to increase population unless u just keep building up. but if we do that it's pretty much certain that we're going to have to tear down some history along the way

@@highlymedicated2438there is a giant glut of underutilized industrial areas in New York

@@highlymedicated2438 more land reclamation would be good, Seaport City has been stuck on the drawing board for a while

Curses! You got here before I poured in. 😡

This sounds like a vaguely sensible idea ! Don't battle it, go with the flow (pun, sorry). Hope someone with enough brains picks up on it .

When my grandma asked where my job is I told her New Amsterdam lol

That's a good one. 🤣🤣🤣

Sounds like you milked our government for every penny you could

There is no plan to build a seawall around lower Manhattan. This is the biggest BS story of the year

Yeah, just over 30% of a meter. We have an easy way of saying that - 30cm. And aside from the inaccuracy, who the heck says a quarter of a meter???

could be a small foot of only 25 cm then 😅

As a past US President Obama had all the information available about climate change and supposed rising sea levels yet still bought a $12 million dollar coastal mansion almost doesn't make sense right? Almost like he didn't believe it 🤔🤔🤔

Hahahaha good catch 🤣

He was put on hold......

you should probably boycott all American inventions 😂

@@gags730 Except it's not half an inch per year. It's currently a lot less than that, but accelerating rapidly. Sea level rise on the east coast of the US is slightly higher than the global average (because of the Earth's rotation) and lower Manhattan is built on top of artificial fill and is actually sinking under the weight of the city built on top of it. The whole of New York is sinking at an average rate of 1-2mm per year.

Sea level rise is based on the assumption that there will not be collapses of major ice shelfs in Greenland and Antarctica. The latest studies indicate ice shelves are being subsumed by warm water intrusion from underneath. As ice shelves go, all bets are off as to how quickly ocean levels will rise.

@@gags730 Both. Manhattan is sinking, and sea levels are rising. But not at half an inch per year, obviously. Not yet anyway. Current global sea level rise is around 4mm per year, give or take.

no man its a dump never ever visit that place trust me

its crime ridden and expensive - NYC resident

I'd visit 1st! New York 🗽 is NO where near the era like 1991-2001. Nothing.

Man everyone is wrong. There’s not high crime in NY like there used to be prior to Guliani taking over. The only downside it’s that it’s very expensive. I bit the bullet and decided to move there anyway and I personally don’t regret it

@@bigkeemy1 blue hair ?

Sea level has not risen so stop

@@thomasjgour4678 Were you in NYC during the last two hurricanes? Did you read about them?

but theres no issue thats the crazy part because sea levels havent risen at all most folk dont understand if it gets warmer the ocean evaporates then the ice melts and replenishes it

@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247 sorry but you clearly must not live along coastal waters. i do, and have in several states and now in the Caribbean. sea level rise is undeniably real. but i wont waist time trying convince doubters. but if i were to give one direction to find the truth, simply find old photos of coastal areas beaches and ports. observe the water levels then and make comparisons to those today.

@xevious2501 what you speak of is coastline erosion happens every where mate i stay in dunoon on the water front its my grandfather's home hes now passed and im 40 he was there in 1940 and theres not even an inch rise in the water lol its just not real but i wont try convince conspiracy theorists who think the world is ending 😉

@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247 And why does coastal erosion occur? whats the driving force? Anyways the effects of sea level rise is not an equal effect in all places as the earth rotates the tidal shifts can only occur but for a short period of time before it shifts, so some places would see little if any change. But i have seen plenty of places that are commonly flooded now to the point of drowning cars parked in the streets that simply did not occur decades past. Thats a fact. believe it or not. I lived and live in several sea level locations Florida/Puerto Rico to have seen the rapid changes first hand, so i could care less about those conspiracy theorist when im a witness to the issue first hand. Its like those same people that didnt believe in covid, til they found themselves laid up in the hospital looking like idiots. Conspiracy.. please. im not one from generation clueless or denial. And i certainly dont follow the crowd. But if you cant see the changes that have taken upon the earth in even the past 4 decades then your REALLY blind.

I think the definitions for "normal" and "working" are different for New York Cuty and Mumbai. Mumbai can make do with less, NYC needs so much just to run at all.

Quite agree...

Sea levels don't rise at all nor do temperatures.

​@@sulev111No, the land shinks and get's below the water level :))

@@FlorinArjocu yes, that's accurate.

@@sulev111you people are hallucinating reality.

no it's not lol most areas that flood are man made and in the case of ny it's sinking due to the weight of the buildings

Great! You just condemned millions of people in the poorest countries to death, disease, poverty, and starvation.

@@bamaraiderable Yep, it's my fault.

@@sarcasmo57 Read Bjorn Lomborg. It will do you some good.

Bonus points for when they shut down projects that have a small negative environmental impact at first glance but on deeper consideration / overall picture have a positive effect on environmental impact.

“Swagger park”

Ice is easy do deal with. Heat isn’t

Cold is easier to deal with then heat bud

Canada and Northern Europe use to be underneath 2 miles of ice. That doesn't sound easy to me @@darthmaul216

Well guess what bud. Climate change is in fact happening and these infrastructure improvements were not needed a century ago

You can remove humans from planet and the climate change wont change

All the big-money-movers wa ted to build near the coasline. This is the affect. They built there and now someone else will have to find public solutions for that private investment to survive.

Sure it is not linear. The temperature did not increase linear at all in the past 2 decades, same with glacier melting process. Once it started, it is an accelerated process.

So why does the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report on the NOAA website clearly state: "Sea level along the U.S. coastline is projected to rise, on average, 10 - 12 inches (0.25 - 0.30 meters) in the next 30 years (2020 - 2050), which will be as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years (1920 - 2020)."

@@-_James_- First, the temperature has not increased exponentially for as long as we have measured it, no matter CO2, rather it has increased slowly like a sinus curve (sometimes up, sometimes down, but overall with a slight increase). The ocean has also never increased exponentially, but linearly. So why should it suddenly do it now? I trust measured temperatures, not predictions by people with an agenda.

@@FlorinArjocu Except the data says otherwise because you're listening to Great Thunberg.

@@-_James_- Because they have been projecting these kinds of disastrous effects of man-made climate change decades into the future to get grant money, be published, get the best university or private sector jobs, and be rock stars in the media. According to older predictions Manhattan should already be permanently flooded with a high sea level rise. Oops. Well the science is just "better" now. How many times do their prophesies have to fail for you stop believing everything they say?

Your comment makes little sense. New Orleans survived Hurricane Ida after the levies had been rebuilt. You act like nothing can change. Your fatalism is simply based on disliking NY.

Tell them that they need to think like a Dutchman: If I invest a dollar in damage protection it will save me from rebuilding after damage in exces of 2 dollar. Dutch protection mostly is stronger than the ultimate storm occuring only once in every 10.000 years, because our government can afford that. You should aim for may be an ultimate storm only once in every 1000 years. Since the Netherlands is for many years in the top 5 foreign investors in the USA, we would like you to protect "our" investments better. So stop this always politizising drama and execute all the plans Dutch made for all your cities.