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Climate change is amplifying extreme weather events like hurricanes, heatwaves and other disasters. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of how best to prepare for this stuff? Moving inland? Buying flood insurance? Stockpiling water? Building stronger relationships might not be high on that list, but maybe it should be.
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Host/Writer: Talia Buford, ProPublica
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0:10 how best to repair?
Hey,we are humans so we need to make strong relationship in our community to survive.
0:50 'squeeze a rock a long time before it turns into a diamond'?
That is not how this works. You need carbon to build a diamond. But the elemnts of rocks are mostly oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium etc.
There is only one special type of "Rock Groups" so called "carbonates group" that contain enough carbon to be squeezed to a diamond.
One of the best ways to both prepare for disasters AND build social ties is to join your local area's "CERT" – Community Emergency Response Team. Most cities have them, set up through their local Bureau of Emergency Management (or similar.) You get training for how to handle whatever disaster is probable in your area, and it helps build relationships with your neighbors.
Squeeze a rock and it becomes a diamond! I wonder if this typifies their attitude to all facts. Makes me wonder about the quality of the channel?
That's a lot of assumptions and jumping to conclusions. How do you know people in that one community checked on each other? Was there at least a survey?
The hell is wrong with the sound? Was her/his/they/xer/yo voice recorded with a plastic cup?
This is not what I payed for…
4:45 Parks are volatile, and just as often become seedy or dangerous. Clean sidewalks and working streetlights don't make streets safer if no one else is walking. Read The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Hey guys, sorry for the sound issues in this episode. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!
I love what you just created with this channel, I'm a spanish speeker I live in Chile (but I'm from Venezuela), and I like your videos so much that I would love to share it with my neighbors, but it dosn't have translation yet, if you need help with the spanish translation let me know.
I would really hope they would.
1:04 Nice dam. This way only the downtown gets flooded.
I don't think I've ever even seen any of the other people who live in my apartment building. This is not going to go well for me.
I don't think I've ever even seen any of the other people who live in my apartment building. This is not going to go well for me.
Soooo, what you're saying is all the introverts die? Well, goodbye then!
pft 41c
i went to denmark (australia) and it was 45c
maybe not a good thing as generally the summer high temps is like 30c
What a cool video. Loved this one! Perfectly well said!
You can't just squeeze a rock hard enough to make diamonds..
as a floridian who has weathered many storms, i have always been blessed with the types of neighborhoods that pull together after a 'natural disaster'….
i just took it for granted that humanity's inner compassion would come forth at such times.
i'm saddened to hear how often it doesn't. 😢
Most people live precarious. There is an economic theory that was used in japanese factories where each step in the production line actually should constantly be about to lag behind, constantly at the brink of failure to maximize throughput without breaking under normal conditions.
This is also what capitalism is doing to our lives, personal and all industries. Most people don't have savings, are forced to spend the least amount of money on items and houses and food and optimize so that things work under normal conditions. Companies buy cheap from this or that place.
There is competitive pressure to do this, so we are a finely balanced global economical system.
Once climate change hits it will massively imbalance this system. Compared to the 2008 recession which was only about numbers in computers the food and water price surges and the destruction and migration from catastrophic weather events will really wreak havoc.
So your global neighbors are more likely to nuke you than to help you.
People need social resilience and care for each other; I mean, have ugly seen the how people treat each other in Africa, South America, or even in the Arctic?
Not meaning to be superficial, but isn't Talia Buford a dead ringer for Kyla Pratt?
Climate change will force me to make contact with other people!? 🤔 Dang… It's gonna be way worse than I expected! 😵
That’s crazy englewood was bopping in the 1800s
i grew up in southern USA and moved to Croatia after that. i never felt so isolated in my life! there are no social ties here and people are used to moving out and not recontributing to the society. i wanna go back home where it's normal.
great video and touched on a subject i feel is applicable to a lot of issues
No they'd be busy looting anything not nailed down.
Soooo I need to make friends.
Try REAL climate crisis witch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiDjf77PN3c
dislike…
the frequency of natural disasters has not changed over time, please cite your sources please.
and YES disasters are bad, summers are hot.,
then blames the deaths of poor inner city people on "global warming" in Chicago.
"would"
could"
"temperature rise"
sensational!
Time to stack up on baked bean cans.
Wow – I did not expect this to be about social connections among neighbors. So important to know people's names, and talk with them, build some connection, before the hard times come. Great video.
it sometimes feels in the digital age its har to make connections with our neighbors,.
When most people reference the Bible and quote Genesis 9:11 wherein God promises not to ever again destroy man, there’s a qualifier:
— to not destroy man by flood.
There’s no mention of not using fire ‘aka’ nuclear war or runaway global warming — both of which, in reality, are man induced. Neither is there mention of not letting man destroy himself, which might violate the tenet of Free Will.
“Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see- I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.”
In so many words, when there's one glass of water for five desperately thirsty people, we'll see how tight community relationships really are.
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Summary:
Know your neighbor.
The End
Apes together strong
I feel completely screwed nobody on my block likes each other, I tolerate my neighbors but it feels completely tense sometimes. There’s so many issues that get swept under the rug.
VERY nice to emphasize community and people connection, not just the usual food and other bug out options!
soon this won't be a joke
News Flash: This is all useless. Humans will be extinct very soon and there's nothing you can do about it
Beeing stored in a refrigerated truck AFTER you died from a heatwave. Damn.
Its june 2024 and its gone worse and we are experiencing heat waves and drouts,wild fire and sea rising, after these event new problem arive, extreme heat making people go mentaly crazy and its affected to animals, some animal show sign of it, its getting lots wrose, poor people are die of lack of resourses, i hope human will accept and repair this nature damage and survive their breed! I HOPE