the hill, prioritize your land.

back in september yale's environment 360 published an article on new york's future with the current climate change stats.  check the full report here. 

"By the end of the century, New York’s climate could resemble that of present-day Raleigh, North Carolina and its harbor could easily rise by two feet or more. Faced with this prospect, the city is among the first urban centers to begin changing the way it builds its infrastructure — and the way it thinks about its future."

that's pretty serious talk, especially when the talk is rooted in money!

picture this:  temperatures begin climbing rapidly, water levels rise faster than expected.  the city drowns overnight thanks to a storm surge.  8 million people living only 10 feet above sea level now knee deep in water, tunnels flooded, subway offline, "business as usual" disrupted.  the wealthy pay their way out of town while losing billions in damage, the impoverished are left stranded asking not for a penny but dry socks and shoes.

what goes on in those land policy meetings?  who decides what alternative use a landscape can have provided disastrous conditions prevail?  If large quantities of people then needed to evacuate and flee their homes where would they go?  battle hill, a high(est) point on long island sits next to two large tracts of land, greenwood cemetery is 474 acres and neighboring prospect park about 585 acres both at higher points at the top of the slope!

so what happens?  rather than a large stadium we have large parks/cemeteries, how many people could those spaces inhabit? and for how long?

high ground is dry ground.