Posted on Feb 1, 2022
Climate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds
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Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm, according to a sweeping new analysis published Monday.
Climate change is already driving more severe flooding across much of the country, especially along the East Coast and Gulf Coast where residents are experiencing the triple threat of rising seas, stronger hurricanes and heavier rain. By 2050, annual losses from floods will be approximately $40 billion, according to the new study by scientists in the U.S. and United Kingdom.
"This isn't a pie in the sky projection," says Oliver Wing, the chief research officer at the U.K.-based flood modeling company Fathom and an author of the study. "These risks are very likely to be experienced by people that are alive right now."
The new study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, attempts to estimate not just the scale of flood risk in the U.S., but who will bear the burden of flooding.
Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm, according to a sweeping new analysis published Monday.
Climate change is already driving more severe flooding across much of the country, especially along the East Coast and Gulf Coast where residents are experiencing the triple threat of rising seas, stronger hurricanes and heavier rain. By 2050, annual losses from floods will be approximately $40 billion, according to the new study by scientists in the U.S. and United Kingdom.
"This isn't a pie in the sky projection," says Oliver Wing, the chief research officer at the U.K.-based flood modeling company Fathom and an author of the study. "These risks are very likely to be experienced by people that are alive right now."
The new study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, attempts to estimate not just the scale of flood risk in the U.S., but who will bear the burden of flooding.
Climate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds
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They're in floodplains because they weren't allowed to build on good soil. That was reserved for the .....
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PO1 John Johnson
There are entire generations of Middle Class African-Americans that moved out of those "poor" neighborhoods because they worked hard to do so. You'd know them if you ever saw them on CNN; they are the one's the some of the other African-Americans call "Uncle Toms".
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While projected flooding e wolves every year, this as a fact has been known for years. These cities and states need to act now to find solutions. There is a multi twirled approach, bickering about how and why gets them nowhere, the need action regardless of how the ended up in these areas.
There should be no politics in the solution.
We are housing (somewhere) 100 of thousands of illegal immigrants instead of caring for our own citizens.
While I am compassionate to all, you always have to care for legal residents first.
The two are not directly correlated, but the money is. There is only so much. Close the damn border and control by law and we free up billions.
There should be no politics in the solution.
We are housing (somewhere) 100 of thousands of illegal immigrants instead of caring for our own citizens.
While I am compassionate to all, you always have to care for legal residents first.
The two are not directly correlated, but the money is. There is only so much. Close the damn border and control by law and we free up billions.
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