South Florida, the laboratory against the climate crisis in the United States

In Miami Beach, the debate is no longer about whether the climate crisis will arrive, but how to live with it. In this coastal Florida city, where flash floods have gone from being a seasonal phenomenon to an increasingly common nuisance, climate change is experienced as a daily emergency. A study by the CLEO Institute predicts that by 2100, large areas of Miami could be permanently underwater if sea levels rise by six feet (1.8 meters), precisely the city’s average elevation.

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