Extreme Rain & Climate Collapse
Alex Smith | 22.09.2013 05:58 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis
Remember the UK floods, plus Germany and Eastern Europe? Now extreme rainfall events have hit Asia and the U.S. In Colorado, one year's worth of rain fell in 24 hours. Carolyn Baker reports from Boulder. Could these repeated hits take down the economy world-wide? Radio Ecoshock 130925
After a quick update on Fukushima reactor site hit by typhoon, we open with one of the big stories of 2013, the unbelievable tropical-style rains that flooded Boulder Colorado and points north. More than a foot of rain in 24 hours in some places, in an area that doesn't get that much in the average year.
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The Boulder story has everything - climate change, the way higher energy costs to rebuild could break budgets, and lessons in how unprepared we all are. Could the triple punch of climate, economic woes and escalating energy be the pathway toward the collapse of industrial civilization?
Then: Dan Imhoff is known for large-scale books, like CAFO the tragedy of industrial animal farming. Now he's out with a new album of vision called "Agraria".
Download Radio Ecoshock here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130925_Show_LoFi.mp3 The Boulder story has everything - climate change, the way higher energy costs to rebuild could break budgets, and lessons in how unprepared we all are. Could the triple punch of climate, economic woes and escalating energy be the pathway toward the collapse of industrial civilization?
Then: Dan Imhoff is known for large-scale books, like CAFO the tragedy of industrial animal farming. Now he's out with a new album of vision called "Agraria".
Alex Smith
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The US is a big place
22.09.2013 12:31
OK, I'm in a normally wetter part of the US than Colorado, so a rain event like that isn't a year's worth for us here but more like four months worth. But there have been THREE events like that where I live in less than 100 years (1938, 1987, 2011). The road on which I live is now (again) paved hard surface down to the highway. For the last two years we've had only temporary repairs since Irenetook out all the bridges along this road but the one our driveway crosses as well as large chunks of the road itself. And yes there were some fatalities with Irene but since here we are more used to risk from high water/washed out roads fewer people die in our events. We know that even when it looks less tan a foot deep "do not drive where the road/bridge is under water; there may not be a road/bridge left under there!" The nearest fatality to us, just a couple miles up the road, was an old guy who took a chance trying to get to even older folks to see if they needed help.
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