A while back I was working on a design for a house being built on some low land near the ocean. The water table is about 6" below the surface. I thought it best to inquire about sea level rise to the jourisdiction in Washington State, to see if they wanted the house to have any accomodation for what has been predicted to be ever increasing flooding. The building department first laughed at me, and then was annoyed by me, for even asking. The engineer they referred me to also pretty much laughed at me for bringing it up. I literally asked another architect, Are we wrong here? Is the climate change really not an issue? Like myself, the architect was fully believing we should start to accomodate the water rising. The whole thing was a joke, it seems, and we (the designers and architects) have got played. (By the way, the house just has a 12" foundation like every other house on the spit, no one is worried about it and no one will build floatable homes or higher foundations in this area of WA.) At least I understand why the engineer just snickered at me now. Folks know its a joke.
Extinction Rebellion's (NZ) website is back up. I guess that Sea must have sold the 35 hectares.
A while back I was working on a design for a house being built on some low land near the ocean. The water table is about 6" below the surface. I thought it best to inquire about sea level rise to the jourisdiction in Washington State, to see if they wanted the house to have any accomodation for what has been predicted to be ever increasing flooding. The building department first laughed at me, and then was annoyed by me, for even asking. The engineer they referred me to also pretty much laughed at me for bringing it up. I literally asked another architect, Are we wrong here? Is the climate change really not an issue? Like myself, the architect was fully believing we should start to accomodate the water rising. The whole thing was a joke, it seems, and we (the designers and architects) have got played. (By the way, the house just has a 12" foundation like every other house on the spit, no one is worried about it and no one will build floatable homes or higher foundations in this area of WA.) At least I understand why the engineer just snickered at me now. Folks know its a joke.
I like naked protests. They grab the attention of people who barely look at themselves in the mirror.
I remember the fury in Colorado when the decision came from the federal court that women's nipples are not dangerous or words to that effect.
You should have seen the statements of the Sunday crowd. I guess that they forgot to read Song of Solomon?