Makes sense 👇https://t.co/qz5cjJA0V7
— David McWilliams (@davidmcw) February 15, 2022
What exactly is logic of building a new city in the Dublin docklands when sea level rise will see entire area flooded & eventually submerged this century? https://t.co/VdrLkrnRQp pic.twitter.com/4xg1cx4QOh
— John Gibbons (@think_or_swim) February 16, 2022
Glug*.
There’s only one thing for it.
Taller buildings on stilts.
* might not actually happen
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what’s the sense in building a new city when’s there’s a perfectly derelict one there to fix
never a truer word spoken in jest.
Jan is right. You’re having a fierce poetic month altogether.
I suspect he swallowed a small one
You mean Miggeldy? He’s pocket sized.
As Aldous Huxley wrote in Brave New World “Ending is better than mending!”
For tens of billions of euros worth of highly valuable city center land I’m sure they’ll build a sea wall quite easily.
The Netherlands have managed to reclaim, and secure, far lower lying land in far larger quantities. Its not that technically or financially prohibitive.
…and also considering the amount of dosh funnelled through the docklands area, you may have a point.
It’s easy to incorporate flood tolerance in new buildings when you are designing them.
Chicago was raised in the 1800s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
The only thing I could see being a problem with the scheme is that the government would then have to admit the port tunnel was a colossal waste of money.
The port tunnel has another function, which is for the better off to skip the riff raff through scores of traffic lights.
When I lived not far from the south docks I used it 10-15 times a year when numpties when traffic was bad (6 euros at the time for peak -> town, came down to 3 after a while), along with the west link toll bridge.
Great to have a relatively free flowing path home when I didn’t feel like queuing with proletariat – well worth the 6-9 euro to get home at a reasonable time e.g. when it was snowing or if there was a big crash on the quays or something.