Rising Sea Levels in New York City
DNY: Landscapes in New York
11/12/14
Term Paper – Rising Sea Levels and PlaNYC Ban Ki-moon once said, “Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges, ' which require global solidarity.” This quote shows how we as a world must work together to try and slow down climate change because it is something that is affecting us all, and eventually will distress us all in a very drastic manner, due to climate change leading to more natural disasters and extreme living conditions no matter where you are. On a smaller scale, we as New York citizens must work together to prevent climate change, and something that applies to us much more directly, rising sea levels. We as a city have already seen the problems caused by climate change and these rising sea levels in some of the low lying neighborhoods here in the city, more specifically when Hurricane Sandy ended up in New York City and left many of us New Yorkers without electricity, and some even without homes. Scientific researchers at NASA had started predicting our rising sea levels and what effects it would have on our city in 2006, and published an article stating what problems we as a city are going to face such as flooding. In 2007, New York City’s government responded to our environmental problems by creating PlaNYC, an initiative to slow down climate change and perhaps look towards the future and change New York for the better, being able to be much more efficient with our energy and trying to slow down and perhaps even stop rising sea levels and climate change. After four years, the city government revised PlaNYC and improved upon it greatly, making it an amazing plan for the future of New York City to prevent climate change. It is a great plan that will include great ways for us to avoid having rising sea levels that could lead to the shutdown of our subway systems and the destruction of many of our
11/12/14
Term Paper – Rising Sea Levels and PlaNYC Ban Ki-moon once said, “Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges, ' which require global solidarity.” This quote shows how we as a world must work together to try and slow down climate change because it is something that is affecting us all, and eventually will distress us all in a very drastic manner, due to climate change leading to more natural disasters and extreme living conditions no matter where you are. On a smaller scale, we as New York citizens must work together to prevent climate change, and something that applies to us much more directly, rising sea levels. We as a city have already seen the problems caused by climate change and these rising sea levels in some of the low lying neighborhoods here in the city, more specifically when Hurricane Sandy ended up in New York City and left many of us New Yorkers without electricity, and some even without homes. Scientific researchers at NASA had started predicting our rising sea levels and what effects it would have on our city in 2006, and published an article stating what problems we as a city are going to face such as flooding. In 2007, New York City’s government responded to our environmental problems by creating PlaNYC, an initiative to slow down climate change and perhaps look towards the future and change New York for the better, being able to be much more efficient with our energy and trying to slow down and perhaps even stop rising sea levels and climate change. After four years, the city government revised PlaNYC and improved upon it greatly, making it an amazing plan for the future of New York City to prevent climate change. It is a great plan that will include great ways for us to avoid having rising sea levels that could lead to the shutdown of our subway systems and the destruction of many of our
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