My name is Digna Colon and I am
writing a blog about climate change. In
this blog am responding to an assignment in my ENG 101 composition class on
climate change. The assignment asked me to read and summarize an article about
what New York City is doing to prepare for climate change. In this blog I will
discuss the main point of the article and will also give my opinion on one of
the reader picks.
In the
article, New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn, published on
September 10th by Navarro, states that New York City has carefully
come across of possible “threat of rising sea bringing severe storm flooding.”
As a result Mayor, Michael Bloomberg is conducting research on climate change
to move boilers of flood prone basement. However, some critics think that the
city is moving to slow on addressing the potential flooding that can paralyze
the transportation and hurt the financial district and also affect thousands of
people leaving them without home. The
critic’s point of view is based on the fact that a year ago the city shut down
on the subway system and ordered an evacuation of 370,000 people, as Hurricane
Irene passed the Atlantic Coast. Fortunately, the Hurricane declined to a
tropical storm, but still exposed how New York City is far from being covered
from such disaster and being economically short from billions of dollars.
Based on a comment, posted on
September 12, 2012 at 5:03 am, Dob talks about the sense of insecurity he experienced
when he found himself trapped in a PATH train traveling from NJ to NY in 2007 when
the tubes flooded. He also describes the
poor planning of evacuation “they diverted us mid-way to the downtown station
rather than mid-town”. In my opinion, Dob’s experience clearly shows how
unprepared the City is to deal with these emergencies. In addition, this is call of awareness for all
of us as one nation since the climate change will not just affect one part of
the population but all of us as a whole.
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