# @dohadebates on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CTZ2olRpJ_S
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/23038472-dohadebates-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-09-04T15:00:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Doha Debates (@DohaDebates) — https://gondola.cc/DohaDebates

## Caption

Streets are flooding. Houses are crumbling. Communities are disappearing.

Climate change is as much an infrastructure issue as a weather issue. Many cities around the world are experiencing extreme flooding, but don't have the right infrastructure to handle it. Weather disasters can also contribute to an acute housing crisis and severe financial hardship for individuals who have lost their homes. With more places experiencing multiple extreme weather crises at once, do we need a total overhaul of our existing systems? 

Extreme weather events have been in the news nearly daily these last few months. In cities around the world, rivers have burst their banks, homes and other buildings have flooded and crops and livestock have been destroyed. This summer alone, death totals are more than 300 in China, almost 200 in Germany and at least 61 in the United States. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this week that the the last 50 years of extreme weather events have cost the world $3.64 trillion. Hurricanes and cyclones are now lasting longer in ways that “cannot be explained by natural variability alone,” according to Friederike Otto of the World Weather Attribution initiative.

As we become more aware of the urgency of the climate crisis, new methods of construction and preparedness bring us hope. The WMO said that while the number of weather disasters and costs have increased nearly 400% since the 1970s, the annual death toll has fallen by 64%. 

Has your community been impacted by severe flooding?

#DearWorld #climatechange #climatecrisis #hurricaneida #flooding #floods #disasterrelief #newyorkcity #louisiana #coxsbazar #suizhou #larioja #india #dernau #auckland #indonesia #europefloods #watercrisis #watercrisisawareness #thereisnoplanetb #flashflooding #severeweather

Slide 3 photo by @dilkayas.

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| Doha Debates | @DohaDebates | https://gondola.cc/DohaDebates | Media Company |
| anna bold | @annathebold | https://gondola.cc/annathebold | Digital Producer |
| anna bold | @annathebold | https://gondola.cc/annathebold | Social Media Manager |

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