How To Avoid The Next Atlantis
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Over the millennia, city dwellers have found lots of effective ways to protect themselvesagainst invaders. But the forces of nature have been harder to keep out, especially becausemost cities lie along coasts and major waterways. In 1362, a storm aptly named “The GreatDrowning of Men” wiped out a string of European settlements, killing more than 25,000 people.In the centuries since, low-lying places like the Netherlands have developed an impressivearray of water-defense systems, including wierden, dikes, ditches, dams, locks, andpicturesque water pumps. And in the mid-20th century, the Dutch began building an ambitiousseries of storm surge barriers that are among the largest movable human-made objects inthe world today.But with sea levels projected to rise by as muc...
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Over the millennia, city dwellers have found lots of effective ways to protect themselvesagainst invaders. But the forces of nature have been harder to keep out, especially becausemost cities lie along coasts and major waterways. In 1362, a storm aptly named “The GreatDrowning of Men” wiped out a string of European settlements, killing more than 25,000 people.In the centuries since, low-lying places like the Netherlands have developed an impressivearray of water-defense systems, including wierden, dikes, ditches, dams, locks, andpicturesque water pumps. And in the mid-20th century, the Dutch began building an ambitiousseries of storm surge barriers that are among the largest movable human-made objects inthe world today.But with sea levels projected to rise by as muc...
