This is interesting. For years, scientists warn about Venice will eventually go underwater as sea level continues to rise.
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#12To an uneducated eye (like mine), Venice looks inadaptable and bound to struggle, and eventually fail. Buildings require constant repair due to erosion. Too much water brings flooding, too little exposes mud and filth, and hinders transportation... I'm very curious to know what counter-measures are put in place to protect the city from these (and many more) dangers.
I went to venice a few years back, there's an outer seawall that protects it from tides.
Venice also naturally floods all the time, when I was over there the large square next to the cathedral / church flooded.
When it floods, it usually floods several inches on average
There's a good article on it here
https://www.visit-venice-italy.com/acqua-alta-venice-italy.h...
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#13I feel like this is a good thing....it's not going to last, and it gives them an opportunity in the meantime to more easily clean and repair places that are normally less accessible.
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#14This is interesting. For years, scientists warn about Venice will eventually go underwater as sea level continues to rise.
That prospect has not changed a bit.
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#15To an uneducated eye (like mine), Venice looks inadaptable and bound to struggle, and eventually fail. Buildings require constant repair due to erosion. Too much water brings flooding, too little exposes mud and filth, and hinders transportation... I'm very curious to know what counter-measures are put in place to protect the city from these (and many more) dangers.
I went to venice a few years back, there's an outer seawall that protects it from tides. Venice also naturally floods all the time, when I was over there the large square next to the cathedral / church flooded. When it floods, it usually floods several inches on average There's a good article on it here https://www.visit-venice-italy.com/acqua-alta-venice-italy.h...
Same thing happened when I was there as well. But, surprisingly, it wasn't as big of a hassle as one would have thought. You could just walk around it.
And a few hours later rain stopped, the flooding relented and it was back to normal.
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#16This would be the perfect time to clean up the city :)
is it filthy? do the canals have trash floating? What are you alluding to?
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#17This is interesting. For years, scientists warn about Venice will eventually go underwater as sea level continues to rise.
This was just due to one day of tides, not a long term trend.
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#18The comment about declining population looks really off. I think most of protected old town areas lost population compared to 100 years ago. People no longer cram in tiny rooms, undesirable ground level flats are converted to shops. Why would this ever be a problem? They have Mestre just over a bridge.
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#19This is interesting. For years, scientists warn about Venice will eventually go underwater as sea level continues to rise.
This is the difference between weather (tide) and climate (rising water levels).
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#20To an uneducated eye (like mine), Venice looks inadaptable and bound to struggle, and eventually fail. Buildings require constant repair due to erosion. Too much water brings flooding, too little exposes mud and filth, and hinders transportation... I'm very curious to know what counter-measures are put in place to protect the city from these (and many more) dangers.
The non-adaptation thing is recent. Dig down and you will find every building today stands atop the rubble of many previous that were nocked down once they got too expensive to maintain. The city constantly sinks and readily adapted to this. Some might say that need to constantly adapt made venice great. But at some point in the 1950s/60s the "greatest generation" decided to protect the old at all costs. Nothing is ever knocked down and so within only a couple generations everything is in crisis at once.