DAMP FUTURE
People are stranded.
The train is flooded.
They prevented our prep.
Unless we act to harden the city against rising sea levels and increasingly intense storms we will undoubtedly find ourselves in a DAMP FUTURE.
Part of this DAMP FUTURE is the destruction of transportation infrastructure, leading to folks being unable to get to work, home, and recreation.
The destruction of the subways is assured unless we prepare ourselves for the DAMP FUTURE. Un-hardened (i.e. “bath-tubbed”) subterranean structures are the most susceptible to flooding.
The most infuriating part of this DAMP FUTURE is that it is entirely preventable. Such people as Kate Orff and Bjarke Ingels have devised plans to protect the island. However, those who stand to gain financially and politically from the status quo, those who aren’t concerned as they won’t be alive when the time comes, or those too out of touch with reality to understand stand in our way. The DAMP FUTURE is their fault, their supporters’ fault, the fault of the institutions that put them into power, as well as the fault of those who support those institutions.
