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Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk

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Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> wrote:
> On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 3:01:09 PM UTC-7, ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> wrote:
>> > On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 6:56:16 PM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> >> Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk
>> >>  > 
>> >> http://www.climatecentral.org/news/cities-unprepared-for-rising-disaster-risk-20364
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >>  > Cities around the world are failing to plan for fast-increasing risks
>> >>  > from extreme weather and other hazards, particularly as population
>> >>  > growth and surging migration put more people in the path of those
>> >>  > threats, the World Bank said.
>> >>  >
>> >>  > By 2050, 1.3 billion people and $158 trillion in assets will be
>> >>  > menaced by worsening river and coastal floods alone, warned a new
>> >>  > report from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
>> >>  > (GFDRR), managed by the World Bank.
>> >>  >
>> >>  > "Cities and coastal areas are woefully unprepared for the kind of
>> >>  > climate and disaster risk now facing our world," said John Roome, the
>> >>  > World Bank Group’s senior director for climate change.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > It should be a boon to the construction industry, all that building on
>> > higher ground!
>> > 
>> > Double-A
>> 
>> Or get some Dutch engineers to desigh dykes.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jim Pennino
> 
> 
> Hmmmm!
> 
> Double-A

Obvously I neither run spell check nor bother to proof read.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 20:56 -0500
  Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-05-22 21:55 -0500
    Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-05-23 00:58 -0400
  Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-23 05:09 +0000
  Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-23 14:37 -0700
    Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-23 22:00 +0000
      Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-24 13:46 -0700
        Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-24 21:14 +0000
        Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:16 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-24 21:25 +0000
    Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 17:07 -0500
      Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-24 13:49 -0700
        Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:13 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:16 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-24 14:30 -0700
            Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 16:34 -0500
          Re: Cities ‘Woefully Unprepared’ for Rising Disaster Risk jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-24 21:27 +0000

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