Why Venice Is Disappearing

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On Tuesday night, as epic floodwaters were rising in Venice, Italy, members of the Veneto regional council gathered in their chambers on Venice’s Grand Canal and, incredibly enough, voted to reject measures to battle climate change. Within two minutes, according to council member Andrea Zanoni, water started pouring in, flooding the chambers with several feet of murky lagoon water.

Coincidence? Maybe. But it almost makes you believe there is a god, and she is laughing hysterically at how foolish humans can be in the face of the climate crisis.

What’s happened in Venice this week, however, is no joke. High winds in the Adriatic Sea drove six feet of water into the city, causing the worst flooding the city has seen in more than 50 years. Tourists took selfies in San Mark’s Basilica in waist-deep water (one man swam across St. Mark’s Square – likely the first, but surely not the last, person ever to do that). Eighty-five percent of the city flooded; at least two deaths were reported. The floodwaters did incalculable damage to the foundations and structural integrity of the 1,000-year-old city’s most iconic buildings, including St. Mark’s Basilica. “These are the effects of climate change,” Venice mayor Luigi Burganaro said as he waded through the flooded city.

But the tragedy of Venice is about more than climate change and the power of rising seas. It’s about how bad engineering, combined with greed and incompetence, can make the climate crisis we are facing so much worse.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/venice-flooding-2019-mose-corruption-913175/

[kimbutgar]

1. I was in Venice last year in March and it was raining,

Seeing the water spilling over into the walkways was unnerving. St Marks square was flooded and they had the platforms to walk on, My husband and I commented on how bad it was going to get if the water continued to rise during to global warming. A lady overheard us and said this scares her also about Venice. We usually stay at the same hotel, a family owned one and the desk manager told us he was also concerned about the water rise and feared it was going to get more worst. Seeing these pictures and watching the news that my favorite place is getting flooded is heart breaking. Another local we met also told us that they have wanted to get more pumps installed to push out the waters but some of the organized crime people in Italy are slowing down the efforts because they are not getting their percentage. We heard this in Rome about garbage collection last year also.

[riversedge]

2. The Venice flooding was on some news last evening. Horrible pics. They also talked of the ruined

or lost art, buildings, etc.

[riversedge]

3. a few pics......

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/trump-friend-roger-stone-found-guilty-of-lying-to-congress.html




..............Carabinieri police officers wade through a flooded arcade

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Locals fight the rising waters using pumps



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A general view shows water being pumped out from a hat shop (L) and a person walking across a flooded arcade by St. Mark’s Square on November 15, 2019 in Venice, two days after the city suffered its highest tide in 50 years.
Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images




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