Introducing “How We Survive Season 2: Saving Miami”

How We Survive

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Business, News

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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There’s the mythical version of Miami, the version that’s all about wealth and glamour and a never-ending party on the beach. And then there’s the real Miami, a deeply unequal place that could eventually be swallowed up by the Atlantic Ocean because of glaciers melting halfway around the world. Miami has been called the most vulnerable coastal city in the world because of climate change. South Florida could be one of the first places in the United States to see true devastation wrought by the climate crisis, devastation that threatens its very existence. This season, we’re asking: How will South Florida survive sea-level rise?

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0:00.0	Miami.
0:02.0	There's the mythical version of reality TV and pop songs.
0:07.0	Yeah, Miami, the glamour.
0:15.0	The glamour.
0:17.0	The gleaming towers of Miami Beach set against the dazzling blue of the sea.
0:22.0	The never-end... dazzling blue of the sea.
0:27.0	the never-ending party on the beach. And then there's the real Miami,
0:30.0	a deeply unequal place that's going to be swallowed up by the Atlantic Ocean
0:34.6	because of glaciers melting halfway around the world.
0:38.1	Society is about to be flung off of the coast because we've totally screwed it up.
0:42.1	I have nightmares. 50,000 dad in Miami from a heat wave.
0:45.6	You're just buying people a few extra years to say goodbye to their loved ones.
0:50.7	And that's what's happening in Miami, it's hospice care.
0:53.0	By the end of the century, sea levels in Miami could rise by five feet or more.
0:59.0	Large amount of neighborhoods in the Miami metro, they're going to be unlivable, completely unlivable.
1:07.0	I'm Amy Scott, and this is how we survive, where we're following the money to the end of the world, in this case South Florida, where flooding has become the norm.
1:22.0	The neighbor next door to me lost his dog in the flood.
1:25.0	Cars were literally floating.
1:27.0	And hurricanes are getting stronger and wetter.
1:30.0	The water is coming through the walls.
1:32.0	I thought I was going through the walls.
1:32.6	I thought I was going to see Jesus.
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