Posted Aug 19, 2022, 3:50 PM
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Originally Posted by ardecila
The WSJ piece about the Obama Center is biased ideological garbage, but I didn't have a problem with the NYT piece about Lake Michigan.
It's the kind of journalism we should have in Chicago, but our papers don't have the resources to pay someone to fact-check politicians and the MWRD/Army Corps.
Because the impacts of climate change on Chicago are more distant and abstract, there's a lot of complacency here which is dangerous. We may get off better than the coasts, but we won't be unscathed. We need to do our own climate proofing just like other parts of the country. Instead all we get is Deep Tunnel and the Army Corps' lakefront rebuild, which are still solving 1970s problems, not 2020s or 2030s problems.
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Chicago is 666 feet above sea level. They are more worried about Lake Michigan levels dropping than going up to flood stage.
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