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How our Infrastructure is being Hammered by Climate Change
If our infrastructure seems invisible to you, then it is working properly and doing its job. We only really notice it when it fails, and then we feel pretty hopeless.
Consider the many engineering systems that need to work for you to cook your dinner.
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groceries, bought at the supermarket, are transported there from all over the world, kept fresh by refrigeration systems powered by electricity, and dependent on global supply chains
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your drinkable water from the tap, transported through buried pipes to your house, to drink, wash your food and aid in meal preparation
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your cooking stove, oven, or microwave powered by the metal conductors of your electrical system, the electrons coming many miles from centralized power stations
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your drain system, taking the used water into your buried pipes, feeding into your sanitation system along with your toilet waste, hopefully separate from your storm water system or otherwise overflowing effluent into rivers or lakes or oceans every storm
I could go on and on, diving into more details and layers of systems, but I think you get my point and can think about this yourself.
Basically, everything we do every single day uses multiple infrastructure systems. Many of these systems are very old and not properly maintained since it is not “sexy” to do this.
All of these infrastructure systems are being hammered by abrupt climate system mayhem.
Our previously stable climate is now chaotic, and out of spec (specification) and subject to increasing failure from climate disruption.
I highly recommend the recent book on infrastructure, and that you put some serious thought into how climate change threatens all our human engineered infrastructure systems.
Links:
Deb Chachra:
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
https://www.amazon.ca/How-Infrastructure-Works-Inside-Systems/dp/0593086597
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Chachra
Snowdonia pumped hydro
https://www.snowdoniapumpedhydro.com/
Dinorwig Power Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
Thames River Barrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier
Hoover Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
Mad Max Fury Road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road
The top 10 largest container ships in the world
https://www.ship-technology.com/features/the-top-10-largest-container-ships-in-the-world/
Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit (shipping container standard)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit
THE TEN LONGEST BRIDGES ON EARTH
https://bridgemastersinc.com/ten-longest-bridges/
Global Positioning System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
Broadband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband
Climate Change Impacts on the Built Environment
https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-built-environment
Time to stop building infrastructure for yesterday’s climate
https://climateinstitute.ca/impacts-building-infrastructure-yesterday-s-climate/
How infrastructure defines our climate
https://www.unops.org/news-and-stories/insights/how-infrastructure-defines-our-climate
Climate Change Impacts on Transportation
https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-transportation
Climate Change Resilient Infrastructure
https://www.adaptation-undp.org/climate-resilient-infrastructure
Engineers Canada
Preparing for the Impact of
Climate Change:
The Importance of Improving
Infrastructure Climate Resiliency –
The Engineering Perspective
https://engineerscanada.ca/sites/default/files/Engineers-Canada-Submission-Preparing-Impact-Climate-Change-en.pdf
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