Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
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#2The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006."
I hope that's just a typo.
Re: Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
#3The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006." I hope that's just a typo.
What part do you hope is a typo?
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#4The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006." I hope that's just a typo.
Quick lookup of other sources all state figures between US$2billion and US$3 billion
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#5The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006." I hope that's just a typo.
I initially read that as the tour costing $2 billion. Seems a bit steep!
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#6The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006." I hope that's just a typo.
I initially read that as the tour costing $2 billion. Seems a bit steep!
Is it? How much have the recent floods experienced in the Americas cost?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I initially read that as the tour costing $2 billion. Seems a bit steep!
Is it? How much have the recent floods experienced in the Americas cost?
What is honestly going on in this comment section? First guy is confused by a perfectly good caption saying that the facility cost $2 billion to build and was completed in 2006. And second guy said he somehow thought that meant that taking a tour costs $2 billion (which would be obviously expensive just for a tour). And you have somehow misinterpreted the comment about the tour to be saying that the facility is expensive.
Come on, guys. Read before you comment. Jesus.
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#8I may not understand the scope of this project, but when I read the $2 billion, my thought was "wow that's cheap!" Consider the Big Dig or the current Seattle tunnel, at $14B+ and $3B+ respectively.
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#9Hurricane Katrina was estimated to have over $200 billion in losses—if that's true, it seems like there should be more investment in this type of infrastructure.
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#10It's so crazy to me that everyone in vulnerable places--Tokyo and Houston in the article for example--are happy to spend hundreds of millions, even billions, to put a bandaid on their local climate change problems.
It seems like they all acknowledge the reality and danger of climate change and are willing to spend money on it.
In TFA Houston wants $400 million to build a reservoir. They seem to acknowledge that things are only going to get worse for them as the years go on. And yet everyone there still drives everywhere spewing carbon into their own air with every trip, public transit is in a poor state, and oil exploitation continues apace. Everyone's OK with spending money and manpower on huge public works projects, but they're not OK with addressing habits and addictions that make the projects necessary in the first place.
It's as if our eyes can see the oncoming train just a mile away, but instead of stepping out of the way we want to build a mechanized winch that will temporarily lift us over the train, and hopefully we'll be done building it before the train hits us, and oh yeah, never mind how we're supposed to get down, or the taller train after that one.
Why can't we put that money, effort, manpower, and will into actually addressing climate change and make crazy projects like vast man-made Mines-of-Moria-style underground tunnels and huge artificial reservoirs unnecessary?
Yes it's a global problem, but solutions to global problems start at home. Throwing our hands up and saying it's pointless until the other guy does something too can't be the way to progress on this issue.