Town Down

New York City, which is as heavy as a hundred and forty million elephants but less environmentally friendly, is subsiding by an average of one or two millimetres a year, though some districts are sinking twice as fast. Thanks to the nothing or less which continues to be done about mitigating the climate emergency, this makes the city increasingly vulnerable to flooding; so appropriate measures will be necessary to ensure that only the most expendable residents are inconvenienced. One scientist advocated, of all things, planning, and also stated that, besides corroding and destabilising real estate, flooding "kills people, too, which is probably the greatest concern" - a degree of optimism which, in a supposedly evidence-driven profession, surely verges on the irresponsible.