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Not Built For This #1: The Bottom of the Bowl

2024/8/20
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Roman Mars: 本播客系列探讨气候变化对社会结构和系统的影响,而非单纯的气候科学数据。系列将涵盖基础设施、保险、住房和公共卫生等方面,并考察美国多个州受气候变化的影响。佛蒙特州蒙彼利镇,一个看似远离气候变化影响的地方,却遭遇了严重的洪水灾害,这预示着气候变化带来的极端天气。2023年蒙彼利镇遭遇了创纪录的洪水,导致许多商家受损,包括Bear Pond Books书店。蒙彼利镇在洪水之前经历了野火烟雾和持续降雨,这预示着气候变化带来的极端天气。蒙彼利镇的洪水并非偶然事件,而是气候变化导致的更频繁极端天气的预兆。即使是像佛蒙特州这样被认为气候风险较低的地方,也受到了气候变化的影响。气候变化迫使人们做出一些非感性的选择,放弃对过去世界的怀旧之情。蒙彼利镇的地理位置(位于河流交汇处的盆地)使其容易遭受洪水灾害,这成为气候变化下的一个致命弱点。蒙彼利镇居民面临着气候变化带来的困境,需要考虑搬迁等重大决策。全美各地都面临着气候变化带来的风险,人们需要做出艰难的抉择。我们现有的社会结构是建立在相对稳定的气候条件下的,而现在这种条件已经不再存在。佛蒙特州过去一年的经历体现了气候变化对许多美国人的影响,它已经从一个讨论的话题变成了一个现实。气候变化是一个全球性问题,但它正在引发一系列地方性危机。我们需要采取减害措施来应对气候变化的影响,因为气候变化的影响将持续存在。佛蒙特州仍然拥有气候方面的优势,例如充足的水资源。气候变化可能导致美国大量人口迁移。 Emmett Fitzgerald: (作为记者的叙述和采访) Rob Casso: Bear Pond Books书店可能无法承受另一次洪水灾害。 Alex Steffen: 应对气候变化需要进行大规模的变革,而不仅仅是简单的适应或调整。应对气候变化需要重新思考城市规划、基础设施建设、资金运作和保险等各个方面。 Abram Lustgarten: 适宜人类居住的气候区域正在发生变化,这将导致大量人口迁移。海平面上升将导致数百万美国人流离失所。大规模人口迁移将对美国的文化和身份认同产生深远的影响。

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Montpelier, Vermont, considered a climate haven, experienced a devastating flood in 2023. This unexpected event highlighted the town's vulnerability to climate change and the need to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.
  • Montpelier, Vermont, experienced a devastating flood in 2023.
  • The flood highlighted the town's vulnerability to climate change.
  • The town needs to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.

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Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate haven.” But last summer, he got a wake up call in the form of a devastating flood.

All throughout the United States, people are watching the places they love change in unpredictable and scary ways. Places that once felt safe are starting to feel risky. Places that already felt risky are starting to feel downright dangerous. And as the climate continues to change, people are being forced to make impossible decisions about how to live, and where to live, in an increasingly unstable and unfamiliar world.

This is a series about climate change and how we prepare for the extremely bumpy ride ahead of us. Because right now we’re all living in a world that was just Not Built for This. 

Not Built For This) is a 6-part mini-series from 99% Invisible, with new episodes on Tuesdays and Fridays in the 99% Invisible feed. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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