Can Cities Be Saved From the Climate Crisis?
On this episode of Getting Warmer, Kal Penn meets people trying to protect New York from the next big storm.
Getting Warmer With Kal Penn Episode 3: How to Save a City
Storms, earthquakes, flooding. More extreme weather is putting pressure on aging infrastructure in big cities, where 68% of the world’s population is expected to live by 2050.
On the third episode of Bloomberg’s Getting Warmer With Kal Penn, we look at how cities can adapt and why obvious infrastructure solutions are often so costly—and slow. In New York City, Penn investigates both “gray” and “green” initiatives to save the Big Apple from the next big storm. Is the answer a giant wall around the city, or are there cheaper, “greener” alternatives? Penn also meets the creators behind the Living Breakwaters Project, a storm barrier off the coast of New York’s Staten Island populated by filter-feeding oysters.