#china floods

[canadianabroadvery]

Living It Up in Xi’s No-Flood Zone

[faultfalha]

This year, the monsoon season in South Korea has been catastrophic. The rain has come down in sheets, flooding the streets and overwhelming the drainage systems. The people of Seoul have been forced to take refuge on the rooftops of their homes, or huddle in the upper floors as the water rises around them. The death toll is mounting, and there seems to be no end to the rain in sight. Some say that this is a sign of the end times, that the floods are a punishment from God for the sins of the people. Others say that it is nature's way of cleansing the land, of washing away the corruption and greed that has taken hold of Seoul. Whatever the reason, the people of South Korea are in the midst of a devastating natural disaster, and there seems to be no way to stop it.

[reasonsforhope]

"In China, a landscape architect is reimagining cities across the vast country by working with nature to combat flooding through the ‘sponge city’ concept.

Through his architecture firm Turenscape, Yu has created hundreds of projects in dozens of cities using native plants, dirt, and clever planning to absorb excess rainwater and channel it away from densely populated areas.

Flooding, especially in the two Chinese heartlands of the commercial south and the agricultural north, is becoming increasingly common, but Yu says that concrete and pipe solutions can only go so far. They’re inflexible, expensive, and require constant maintenance. According to a 2021 World Bank report, 641 of China’s 654 largest cities face regular flooding.

“There’s a misconception that if we can build a flood wall higher and higher, or if we build the dams higher and stronger, we can protect a city from flooding,” Yu told CNN in a video call. “(We think) we can control the water… that is a mistake.”

Pictured: The Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok

Yu has been called the “Chinese Olmstead” referring to Frederick Law Olmstead, the designer of NYC’s Central Park. He grew up in a little farming village of 500 people in Zhejiang Province, where 36 weirs channel the waters of a creek across terraced rice paddies.

Once a year, carp would migrate upstream and Yu always looked forward to seeing them leap over the weirs.

This synthesis of man and nature is something that Turenscape projects encapsulate. These include The Nanchang Fish Tail Park, in China’s Jiangxi province, Red Ribbon Park in Qinghuandao, Hebei province, the Sanya Mangrove Park in China’s island province of Hainan, and almost a thousand others. In all cases, Yu utilizes native plants that don’t need any care to develop extremely spongey ground that absorbs excess rainfall.

Pictured: The Dong’an Wetland Park, another Turescape project in Sanya.

He often builds sponge projects on top of polluted or abandoned areas, giving his work an aspect of reclamation. The Nanchang Fish Tail Park for example was built across a 124-acre polluted former fish farm and coal ash dump site. Small islands with dawn redwoods and two types of cypress attract local wildlife to the metropolis of 6 million people.

Sanya Mangrove Park was built over an old concrete sea wall, a barren fish farm, and a nearby brownfield site to create a ‘living’ sea wall.

One hectare (2.47 acres) of Turenscape sponge land can naturally clean 800 tons of polluted water to the point that it is safe enough to swim in, and as a result, many of the sponge projects have become extremely popular with locals.

One of the reasons Yu likes these ideas over grand infrastructure projects is that they are flexible and can be deployed as needed to specific areas, creating a web of rain sponges. If a large drainage, dam, seawall, or canal is built in the wrong place, it represents a huge waste of time and money.

Pictured: A walkway leads visitors through the Nanchang Fish Tail Park.

The sponge city projects in Wuhan created by Turenscape and others cost in total around half a billion dollars less than proposed concrete ideas. Now there are over 300 sponge projects in Wuhan, including urban gardens, parks, and green spaces, all of which divert water into artificial lakes and ponds or capture it in soil which is then released more slowly into the sewer system.

Last year, The Cultural Landscape Foundation awarded Yu the $100,000 Oberlander Prize for elevating the role of design in the process of creating nature-based solutions for the public’s enjoyment and benefit."

-via Good News Network, August 15, 2024

[betty-bourgeoisie]

I am so so over climate change being something that I'm supposed to worry about in the future.

I didn't have asthma until 2017 when we started having regular forest fire seasons.

One of my elderly relatives died during one of those forest fire seasons because he couldn't handle the smoke.

Climate change is not some future issue. It is happening Right Now. It is impacting me and my family and my friends and it has been for quite some time.

If you read this I hope you reblog and share how climate change has impacted you and your loved ones. It is worth sharing. It is worth saying out loud.

I never see anyone directly blaming climate change for their health issues, or for the death of their loved ones, or even for the fact that they couldn't go for a walk one day during an extreme weather event, but we need to. We need to name this shit! We need to call out the fact that corporate and government inaction on this issue is actively harming us. This is no longer some intangible issue.

Talk about climate change like it's effecting you personally because it fucking is

[meta-holott]

2002 China, Yangtze, Three Gorges, a year before the valley was flooded. From Yichang to Chongqing, going up the stream, the ferry had many stops. At that time, every cities along the river were destroyed by hand in a huge mass relocation of towns and villages.

[legendary-cucumberdragon]

A mosque is a mosque. It is not a Hindu temple nor it is a synagogue. Churches are for Christians, mosques are for muslims, synagogues are for jews ...

I can't understand the obsession of some supremacist governments to turn mosques to anything else. Isnotreal is trying its best to minimize the muslims in the Al Aqsa mosque and its compound by raiding it, to make it theirs. India and China are following their footsteps and destroy century old mosques to build some other fuck-shit.

I just can't and refuse to understand how a bunch of morons that doesn't even believe in god and go against humanity claim to be "god's chosen people" and decide that everything on this planet belongs to them.

I am disgusted, frustrated and mad ... the only thing I can do is pray and watch.

But then I am reminded of this:

So, undoubtedly, along with the hardship, there is ease. Surely with (that) hardship comes (more) ease. [Quran, 94:5-6]

I don't have the energy to say more ...

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

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the floating bridge, guangji bridge 广济桥, chaozhou, guangdong province 

[weedgay]

learned via tumblr dot com that nora dropped another one, blacked out, woke up to an updated order history

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil floods: BRICS group of nations pledge billion dollars for Southern Brazil

The BRICS group of nations have pledged a billion dollars for storm-ravaged southern Brazil. The aid pours in as the receding floodwaters begin to reveal the full extent of the devastation.

[scholarofgloom]

[viralarcadian]

oh this place is real fucked up

[panicinthestudio]

Hong Kong hit by widespread flooding and landslides as heavy rain paralyses city, September 8th, 2023

Hong Kong was hit by widespread flooding and landslides as heavy rain paralysed the city. The Observatory recorded the highest one-hour rainfall since records began in 1884. Vid: Patrick Lamoine/Libby Hogan/AFP.

Hong Kong hit with heaviest rainfall since records began 139 years ago, September 7, 2023

Hong Kong reported 158.1mm of rainfall in the space of an hour, the highest since records began in 1884. Local authorities said various districts had been flooded and emergency services were conducting rescue operations. Members of the public were instructed to stay in a safe place. The Guardian

Further reading:

HKFP: At least 2 dead after Hong Kong battered by record rainfall, severe flooding, September 8, 2023

Reuters: Hong Kong, Shenzhen deluged by heaviest rain on record, September 8, 2023

[mcnjushcge]

I don't hate canada, but I can't believe that aph china is less popular than him. Some fanfics portray canada as having more power than china 😬

PLEASE……..whichever one of you mayo monkeys is coming up with this shit and shamelessly publishing it I need you take off the stan goggles and ASK YOURSELVES…….does canada matter

[meta-holott]

2002 China, Yangtze, Three Gorges, a year before the valley was flooded. From Yichang to Chongqing, going up the stream, the ferry had many stops. At that time, every cities along the river were destroyed by hand in a huge mass relocation of towns and villages.