KZN Rolling Hills Are Old Sand Dunes-6 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
KZN Rolling Hills Are Old Sand Dunes-6 / Axel Bührmann
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | KZN Floods: Listening to Professor Anthony Turton on the news this morning, it seems those rolling greens hills of KwaZulu-Natal that we're so taken with (well, I am) are basically massive, pre-historic sand-dunes covered with vegetation.The rain has saturated top layers all over the place, which leads to increased viscosity and then those massive mud-slides we see washing away buildings and well, everything - on-masse. Plus, a great many new developments are being done on reclaimed sugar fields, and there's really nothing to support them when you have a month's worth of rain in one day. It's an awful thing to see - whole buildings, houses, roads, bridges, washed away. Most of the infrastructure and buildings were designed with the conditions of yesteryear in mind, but climate change and extreme weather will necessitate a dramatic rethink going forward.And this may be only the tip of the iceberg, as it were. Bloody hell.I think I interpreted his interview correctly. It was fascinating and scary - extreme weather combined with little or no interest in investing in maintaining even the existing infrastructure, no matter how antiquated, and you have a catastrophe on your hands.Interview here: m.facebook.com/watch/?v=542960280744278 |
| 撮影日 | 2022-03-14 12:39:43 |
| 撮影者 | Axel Bührmann , Here, South Africa |
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| 撮影地 | Umdoni, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 地図 |