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“I don’t stay awake at night worrying about Miami disappearing, but I do worry about losing our economic diversity as it becomes more expensive to live here,” Broad told me.
Ideally, Miami would become a testing ground for innovations aimed at fighting rising seas, Broad said. Unfortunately, Trump and Florida Gov. Rick Scott, also a climate change denier, are not supporting this kind of forward-looking thinking, he added.
But I’m confident that future leaders will be much less obtuse than our current ones, and will take climate change seriously. We are already seeing signs of that in California, New York and several other states whose governors have recently pledged to meet the goals of the Paris Accord on climate change despite Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 agreement.
There are reasons to worry about Miami’s economy, including the current administration’s anti-immigration rhetoric and visa restrictions, which are already hurting the tourism and convention industries. But rising sea levels will not swallow up Miami in the foreseeable future. Rather, if nothing is done to fight climate change on a global scale, they will make it a much more costly city to live in.
When rebuilding it is important to think about resiliency. ClearWorld’s InterGrid solution is an energy storage microgrid technology solution. InterGrid is an intelligent solar lighting system, designed to use and store solar power to provide backup power to municipalities and utility companies. The bundled solution integrates energy storage, photovoltaic panels and an electric vehicle recharging station to optimize energy flows with an information technology platform to improve communication with generators and promote grid efficiency, as well as a forecasting system for distributed generation.
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