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The BIG U - a Seawall around Manhattan to keep rising water out. Climate Change causes increasing danger... The Ocean is Rising, coastal cities plan for flooding...

The Plan is to build a giant wall to keep the Ocean from flooding Manhattan... No action is planned for New Jersey, Queens The Bronx or Brooklyn...

Big U Seawall to protect NYC

In collaboration with New York City, The BIG U proposal was developed to protect Lower Manhattan from floodwater, storms, and other impacts of a changing climate. The BIG U calls for a  protective system around the low-lying topography of Manhattan beginning at West 57th Street, going down to The Battery, and then back up to East 42nd Street.
http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/our-work/all-proposals/winning-projects/big-u



Manhattan plans to build a massive $1 billion wall and park to guard against the next inevitable superstorm...
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-flooding-manhattan-coastal-barriers-2018-4

Detail of The Wall around Manhattan NYC

Green World Rising dot Org - Solar and Wind Energy instead of Fossil Fuels. It's happening now! Great Movies...


http://www.greenworldrising.org 
ABOUT US. Green World Rising is a series of short films on the state of climate and solutions to the climate crisis. All the films of Green World Rising are for global distribution, free to the public and hold a Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International. 

About LAST HOURS. The film “Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRrg96UtMc WATCH Last Hours  for free on YOUTUBE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFWUZ0KkJg - The Movie "Carbon"
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, CARBON tells stories of communities fighting climate change. The film can be seen at greenworldrising.org, where viewers can also take action with resources to contact elected officials and spread the word. "This film is meant to be an asset for the climate movement and to generate momentum for the global reduction of carbon emissions," said Leila Conners, director of the film, which was produced by George DiCaprio, Mathew Schmid, Roee Sharon and Earl Katz, and presented by Thom Hartmann. Conners added, "We must move toward renewable energy and to create a real solution, hopefully well before the COP 21 in Paris in 2015.” The next three films in the Green World Rising series will be released in succession leading up to the UN Climate Summit in New York this September.

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