Florida's Insane $10 Billion Plan To Solve It's Geography Problem!
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2023
- An incredible, absolutely enormous transformation is happening in Florida, on a scale that's never been seen before. Home to Disney land, Space shuttle Launches and the Everglades
Florida is the fastest growing state in the US, it has the 4th biggest economy and is now the 3rd most populated state in the USA with 1000 people a day moving there for its temperate climate, favorable tax laws and expanding businesses community.
Approximately 139,670 sq km in size, most of Florida is situated on a peninsula that's surrounded on three sides by two main bodies of water, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean
it has 1,350 miles of coastline and over 825 miles of beach. Florida is composed of mainly marshland, swampland, lakes, springs, and rivers. And is recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot for Its unique geography and ecological diversity. Florida is one of the countrys top tourist destinations, tourism is its biggest industry drawing millions of visitors each year to its dozens of state and national parks. In 2022 it had a record 137.6 million visitors, which contributed over 100 billion dollars to the states economy. One of the sunshine state's most notable tourist attractions is the Florida Everglades, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and 1.5 million acres in size, the Florida Everglades is one of the largest wetlands in the world, home to endangered, rare, and exotic wildlife, its often thought of as a swamp, However the Glades are actually a slow-moving river flowing over an area that's 40 miles wide and 100 miles long, from the south shore of Lake Okeechobee to the mangrove estuaries of Florida Bay.
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So, I live in Florida and I've NEVER heard of this. I wish this was advertised more. It sounds amazing!
YES, I WAS HERE DURING THE 80'S WHEN THEY DREDGE THE KISSAMI RIVER, TO STRAIGHTEN IT OUT, SAD
@@domcizek That happened in the 1960s. In 1985 Gov. Graham threw the first shovel of backfill to start the project. Do you remember what was going on with the politics of this project? Like, who was for it and who was against?
I'll bet the granola eating, tree huggers who everyone made fun of back then were happy.
It's a good thing that Democrats were in charge of the federal government and Florida's government when this project began in the 1980s and 90s.
YES I WAS HERE, ALL I REMEMBER WAS THE BOATERS WANTED A STRAIGHT ROUT TO THE BIG LAKE, @@charlesandrews2360
The story of white man in Florida is of altering the nature for profit
@@charlesandrews2360 Sorry Republicans have been in charge of the restoration for decades. Dems are the trans kid party now.
Miami, Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville are NOT merged into one city region!
Where do you check your facts?
They are hundreds of miles apart and have vast areas of undeveloped land between them.
You obviously have never been there
What do you expect from people that think Florida is home to Disneyland lol
@@thesolipsist7998 FACT, disneyland is moving to mexico! OH OH, or was that new mexico or texas?
A process called (suspenseful pause) “backfilling.”
LOL. This channel is off my list.
Have you looked at an aerial map of the state. The burbs are spreading fast. By merge they mean their economic ranges will overlaps. There are spaces in the megacity that extends from Portland ME to Charlotte NC but economically it is one giant megacity of 80 million people.
@andrewday3206 You are correct. This person is making this stuff up. There is no Megalopolis. There is no uptick in devastating storms either. It has always been that way if you live here and the storms have always been bad throughout Florida history. If you live on the coast then you take your chances. The Seminoles knew better. The "restoration" project is not new but been going on for a long time to restore Florida water flow and wetlands. If its not done we will lose the Everglades.
If they can actually done this with $10.5 billion, that is actually a bargain.
0% chance half of it isn’t lost to corruption. It’ll end up at 40B or more. Junk state lol
They could do it for a lot less if state and government weren't dipping in
Cheap imagrants labor.
And how much is Graft to the Pol's????
This is all well and good, but will it be for naught when rising sea levels cover three quarters of Florida?
Shutting down the sugar mills, regulating residential construction, and not allowing New Yorkers to load up their cars and move here unobstructed just to drive up the cost of living would fix 99% of FL's problems over night.
It was the great exodus of refugees from the socialist states of NE, or that's how I describe it anyways.
HAHA, GOOD ONE, THE NEW YORKER SELLS HIS HOUSE FOR 700 THOUSAND AND BUYS ONE IN FLORIDA FOR 300 THOUSAND AND HAS 400 K TO PLAY WITH AND LIVES THE GOOD LIFE, AFTER WORKING 50 YEARS, THEY DESERVE IT
Yeah then first time home buyers here can't afford a $3500 a month mortgage for a condo because you guys are paying top dollar for shitty homes in the hood. Quit taking advantage of wage disparities and screwing over fellow Americans.
@@domcizek You never addressed the "escape from socialist state" part, don't tell me how they made out on it, tell me why they ran from the havenly utopia.
And quit yelling, its an internet etiquette ting.
YOU DO KNOW THAT FLORIDA NOW IS A SOCIALIST STATE, FLORIDA IS THE ONLY STATE THAT HAS GOVERNMENT HOME INSURANCE, ALL BEBECUSE ALL THE INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE PULLED OUT BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, IT IS CALLED CITIZENS INSURANCE AND PAID FOR WITH MY PROPERTY TAXES , ALSO, ITS A NEW WORLD OUT THERE, I LOVE CAPS @@jimmahr.4665
When I lived in Florida in the 80s, they were talking about restoring the Everglades because Florida was headed for water shortage in the future. There was so many detrimental effects draining the Everglades for agricultural. I’m so happy it’s actually taking place…. A little late, but it’s doing it.
Finally, people are beginning to realize that humans can't just force the land to work for us, we can only work with the land and follow it's set of rules, if we're to survive in the future, we better start doing what Florida is doing everywhere.
The Feds need to take ownership of the parklands, especially the everglades. This biome can be ruined permanently and keeping it out of the reach of local and state profiteers for a potential financial gain needs to stop. Those involved in these construction projects need to look elsewhere. Over and over again the Feds FEMA) have bailed out those who built in areas where nature comes in and wipes out the structures built on the property, sometimes multiple units costing millions are granted or given low cost loans to "make whole". Making Whole should mean returning it to its natural state!
yea and buy an electric car. lol
@@standingbear998 I'm wondering how one might go about encouraging others to read just a little bit about the ongoing pillage (and sacking?) of FL biomes. If one doesn't like to know about these things directly, almost all of Carl Hiaasen's mysteries (or his movies?) folded into his stories. Might be ok to explore another POV. For me, I do understand the attractiveness of a beautiful place to go to work, live, retire, so I don't blame anyone for making the choice... but we have seen what happens not just to a local/state level, but it extends even to the entire globe in some places. Please consider as you start your car shopping next time😉🥰.
No. Indigenous people all over the planet know to respect the laws of nature and work with it. It's these new comers who try to rename everything and create 'money' to manipulate.
@@sjoncb To be a bit more clear on my POV. Creating and protecting the various types of spaces on this planet is essential to the planet's ability to continue. Paving everything and putting up places to live and work is what Carl Hiaasen wrote about -- adding humor so he could get away with calling people out on the stupidity of raping the planet for temporary gain. Mother Earth seems to be attempting to take back the planet in so many ways, right now! We have been given the wake-up call!
its almost as if building massive cities where water used to be was a bad idea 🤔
the entire state of Florida would be under the ocean.
Make Monsanto Chemicals illegal, but they own the government so goodluck.
#Monsanto is now @Bayer. RoundUp = EcoCide. Protect the Water
@@HoneyBadger80886 I miss Monsanto- I called it MonSatan. The actual active in RoundUp is the culprit and is in hundreds if not thousands of products now, from aquatic herbicides such as Reward and everything else under the spray-covered skies. Glyphosate, or just glyphos for short. Peace
Unfortunately, the EPA is a veritable Who's Who of former Monsanto management.
Either way...rid the chemicals.
When you make the law you control the flow of money.
We learned the hard way that "it's not nice to fool with mother nature" :)
Solution: Move half of humanity to MARS...so they can litter and pollute that planet too.
The Army Corps of Engineers is undoing nearly everything they did 60 years ago.
Blame the sugar cane industry. It's conveniently left out!!!!!
I left Florids in 1973. The salt water intrusion problem was a known problem then. Every house was on a septic tank. When cities started annexing unincorporated areas and laying sewer pipes they pumped the sewage into the ocean killing the reefs right across from Bahia Mar yacht basin. When the feces washed onshore thevmade the pipes longer. ENGLAND and other coastal place on earth did the same. New York has dumped garbage In the Atlantic for a very long time. Flat Florida since Ieft has mountains of garbage similar to the movie Idiocracy. Remember the fool ish man built his house on the sand or in south Florida in the wet lands ie drained everglades that floods when it rains hard.
Ban the stupid lawn fertilizers.
can you please run for governnor?
Ahhhh. NO. We are free here in our MAGA Patriot Trump Nation State. We we ban leftist Democrats here….
ITS THE FARMS ALSO, ,
Ban humans from Florida for 100 years...Have all Floridians move to the desert.
it's the sugar cane
Kudos to Florida for this wonderful project in solving your states environmental problems. Cheers to planting more trees, mangrove, fruits and flowers in your state!❤
It's not home to Disneyland.
Got out after 65 years. Nature will reclaim what was developed. Low pay, high prices. It's all yours ❤❤❤
Thanks🎉
So where did you go to find Utopia?
Like Singapore, 100% of Florida land destroyed for buildings needs to be replaced within and around the structure.
Building up rather than out with verticle gardens.
Grey water irrigation. Eliminating grass dominated housing complexes in favor of native filter plants.
As well as the planting of water filtering plants and shellfish in all water retention and natural ponds, rivers, and streams.
Cleaner water and less agricultural strain.
And rain water catching/filtering systems fitted for all buildings with consumption needs.
Building out rather than up IS the problem. The massive sprawl of suburbs and big houses is what intrudes upon the everglades. If anything there's a lot of places where the housing and infrastructure needs to be upzoned to address the reality that it's not the 1950s anymore. There's no excuse for us destroying the everglades to build houses while the cities themselves have vacant parking lots and gravel sites owned by real estate investors using it as an investment with 0 intent of actually doing anything with it rather than them actually building things on those sites.
The price tag is truly a stellar value given all the rewards, especially long-term. On a side note, I think the term "megalopolis" was misused given my understanding. Nonetheless, I greatly support the idea of monumental restoration projects of the natural aquatic environment here.
Someone wanted to plug trumpy with MAGA. inbreds.
😎🇺🇸As a 3rd Generational South Florida Native From Palm Beach I’d Like To Say Thanks For The Video & Remind Everyone Of The Old Saying…”It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature…”
What tribe?
You’re a fool that was a line from a ‘70’s commercial.
The problem is not just the natural movement of water it is the nutrient pollution that is not addressed
what good are the lakes and waterways if they are the most polluted in the U.S.🐸
I live in Florida almost all my 82 years of life, and the pollution started from the sky with the not STOPING CHEMTRAIL, IN THE seventies.
The riparian landscape -- plants and freshwater/brackish bivalves, mostly -- will take care of a good bit of it, but source reduction needs to be addressed too.
Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from fertilizer would be taken care of in the everglades ecosystem, the plants actually love it for the same reason the grass does. The reason it's a problem is it went thru concrete canals straight to the ocean and instead of plant growth we got poisonous algae blooms
Are they the most polluted in the U.S.?
@@gamertimefriend1286Not really... They dump that polluted water through the Caloosahatchee and Indian River as they control Lake O water levels.
The plants love it, but it also kills them and everything else. You get insanely massive blooms in plant life and algea, the water can't support them, they starve, die, and it all turns into a nice brown muck.
Maybe the Everglades is a big enough area to filter it properly, but in reality that's just going to encourage the sugar lobby to increase the limits of what's acceptable till they kill the Everglades too.
I've personally witnessed the before and after of the Caloosahatchee releases and the fertilizer effects on in our canals ponds and lakes... Our rivers used to be clear and blue with Tarpon and Jacks running up them... Now they're black with green film and dead.
Invasive snakes have ended biodiversity in Florida.
If Florida wants to get rid of the invasive snakes then they should stop voting Republican.
The cold fronts usually stop them
Not really. The native predators have grown to target them recently.
The real question is how far those snakes will spread outside of florida. Not every part of the south has as many successful predators as the gulf coast to hunt them.
Nah it’s all the subdivisions they’ve built not the snakes that have already been here 100 years
Not to mention highways too.
I 95 used to be so wide open in Florida. Now you have to time it getting past Jacksonville. Traffic is insane from every possible direction. I feel like I’m home on the Long Island Expressway at rush-hour.
It's that way near every major city.
8:08 if that’s the case whoever decided to return the river to its original way deserves big recognition. mostly because it worked
See what happens when mankind intervenes with nature the wrong ways, thank god someone with some sense has taken the wheel and steered the vehicle the right direction for the future of Florida 🙏🙏
Modern Eco science = hindsight with remedies
The population numbers are intentional disinfo - huge high-rise buildings are not equivalent to a huge population because the super rich own dozens and dozens of luxury condos, penthouses, mansions, etc. - worldwide - which means thousands of luxury high-rise buildings sit mostly empty.
I lived in a luxury high-rise building for several years - very few people live in that building.
All the wealth is controlled by less than 3%
Happens in San Diego too
So how does the Census work, then?
Indeed. I used to live in miami too. Most of those condos were there to be assets only
Yes, the mostly-empty high rise buildings and mostly empty mansions are worldwide - including East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the British and Irish Isles, North America, Latin America, Australia, Africa, the Pacific Islands and so on.
Calling Florida a "magalopolis" is unintentionally(?) hilarious.
Why is that hilarious?
Make America Great Again - lopolis
Came to the comments to say this lol
She only meant the identified cities.
It actually is exactly that. 1 long city and suburbs that stretch from Miami to about Jupiter
Save Florida, stop over building and clearing every acre of land
You're right.
@@markhansen3111 you both obviously have never driven across florida east to west north to south once your out of a city you may not see another house till you hit the next city.. ocala fl to tampa not a hardly anything between them.. tampa to orlando 2 hrs drive nothing to see..lol ocala to I10 not much between there either..
Just face it they’re going to pave over the whole state
The only real problem and realistic thing that will help Florida the most......control the population growth. Stop letting so many move in here. Raise license plates fees for newcomers to $600 or $800 a plate. Then if they keep coming raise that fee for their driver's license also.
This has to be pissing off housing developers .
OH WELL! the environment and the future of the world is far more important!
One of the biggest land developers in south Florida, Ron Bergeron, is actually a very strong advocate for the conservation of the Everglades ecosystem.
@@valhallajones3865 One of the biggest drug dealers in New York gives to charity .
i live here and didn't know all of that was happening....at least someone is trying to undo the early mistakes.
If government agencies had knowledge of how our ecosystem works, there wouldn't have been a problem.
Learning a lesson of such expense is usually a lesson more difficult to forget. I moved here from Pennsylvania with my parents in 1954. I am 77 now and LOVE Florida. I moved out of a city that was always competing with TAMPA - I'm glad I live in FLORIDA where I can drink clean fresh spring water from my own well , pay much less for electric and thank God for a father who taught me to live well below my means and save for a rainy day. Now I know I'll live a much calmer, happy life without the DRAMA that I witness the rest of the world worrying about. Thank you DAD, (and MOM) and JESUS!!! ❣❣🏁
Money well used for once. Playing with nature is always a bet you will lose.
Florida developer: "It seemed like a GREAT idea at the time."🙄
said in every city/country since the beginning of time.
gee, I hope it works... I vacationed there and marveled at the beaches and everglades and wonderful climate!
I LIVED THERE>>>TRUST ME IT WON'T !!! just propaganda
You like the climate? What specifically is it you like because I for one couldn't stand to live there.
I grew up in Florida during the 1970’s and left five years ago. It has changed so much and there is nothing left of the genuine old Florida left as the entire state is one big amusement park. The water near the beaches is so dirty compared to what i experienced as a kid and the climate is just a furnace. We didn’t have air conditioning when I was young but try that today…..
I also had no AC when I was young growing up in Florida, up until was about 25. Now that I'm old, I must be more careful about the heat. It is very hot in parts of India, hotter than Florida, and most people there survive since the do not have AC.
And there is a lot of undeveloped land all over the interior of the state.
I can't help but oversimplify a bit, the government spent billions to build the canal, and now billions more to fill it in. That's like digging a hole, just to fill it back in 50 years later or something! If it wasn't for the waste, I'd say it is almost comical that it takes billions to dig a hole and fill it up again.
Don't worry... Los Angeles did this too back in the day. Now they also want to remove the concrete channels as well. Ironically, LA's reason to put the concrete channels was to prevent flooding. Now they want it gone because we don't have much drinking water.
It was not done because "government wanted it", it was done because BUSINESS wanted it. The Government listened to the demands of short-sighted investors and developers and wrecked the delicate ecology. NOW, after decades of mismanagement and environmental decline, even the conservative businessmen are getting the message that their granddad's brilliant plan to "make a quick buck" was a really bad financial idea after all. And Government, once again, is charged with fixing it. This time undoing the mistakes of the past.
YES, IN THE 80'S THEY DID NOT KNOW ANYBETTER, THE DEVELOPERS CONTROL CONGRESS IN FLORIDA
They were kinda dumb back then...they used to dumb massive barges full of trash into the ocean...
IT IS A VERY large hole dude!!! what else ya wana know? and the lesson learned here is, never trust govt to do the right thing!!! never ever!!!
This video is just about the Kissimmee river restoration & everglades somewhat. Still too many people contributing pollutants, big ag throughout the state, & heavy urbanization. You can "save"/ "restore" places compared to the catastrophies they use to be. But as long as humanity continues the hubris of 'our industries matter the most' & ever encroaching on land use change & using up resources (water, mining phosphate, etc polluting and filling in wetlands) both humanity and nature will go under (& please dont tell me "FL was doomed anyways because of sea level rise" you dont know how long that'd take! )
This is great. Hopefully it will restore the wildlife populations.
4:03 the Kissimmee River used to meander back and forth the length of the state from it's origin to the Everglades and the Army Corps of Engineers straightened it out to drain the land and upset a lot of things there was a big Delay from when they said they were going to fix it to the time they started but we have an extremely good understanding of what it was like before and a pretty good understanding of how to return it to that and in my opinion I think the ridge is as healthy and productive as it has ever been
Nature always wins and we will pay the conquences, its good to see we are trying to work with nature. Thats the best soluation, we must work with nature.
No matter the hate, Florida keeps prospering even under hurricanes and floods. Imagine how unlivable northern and western states has gotten that people prefer a swamp.
death by mosquito and other assorted environmental hazards that aren't in the tourist brochures.....I've got some PRIME expensive swamp land I could sale you...got cash ???
Dewey Cheatum & Howe....real estate....for ALL YOUR NEEDS
they like the great weather down there it's that simple
I feel very fortunate to be living in Florida, but I seem to be the only person in my upscale Sarasota neighborhood, to NOT have manicured lawns which guzzle water, fertilizers, pesticides, and require the near constant presence of lawn workers with loud and polluting equipment. I ripped out all the grass (by hand,) and planted a mixture of native and other subtropical plants. If cunningly managed, they end up looking after themselves, with no watering or weeding necessary.
Thats great 😀
So much of modern problems come down to the same problem of seeing things as common that are in fact unique and irreducible. "Oh look, its just a river which is like a canal but less straight, so let's make it a canal". And then you destroy the ecosystem. We do the same thing with cultures and society. We think they are all the same and you can just manufacture them to some central planning need.
Very Good explanation. Thanks for posting.
You are welcome!
Florida is one of the best run in the United States.
I wouldn't call Florida's weather temperate.
Technically it is subtropical
Definitely depends on where you live in Florida. The state is gigantic
Barely subtropical in North Florida and the Panhandle, absolutely tropical in South Florida and the Florida Keys.
Perpetual geoengineering chemicals have turned the skies a sun-hindering white haze. Day to day, it is anyone’s guess the temperature/weather in southern Florida
Everyone lives in air conditioning year round! I lived there for 17 yrs coming from a truly temperate country. The locals set their thermostats at 74 year round and never open their windows! I eventually went back to a temperate climate !
Whoever edits these videos is amazing.
Not just invasive flora but fauna too. I've seen a few videos of iguana, monitor and python hunters
I have watched one vedio, prawn were eating algae, it will good to grow prawns without giving food.
Expert people in farming prawns can grow prawn naturally by putting net.
I don't have any idea of land scape or farming of prawn.
just a small suggestion.
Japan grow the alge eating fish.
Jay Bharat.
Ppl who leave Florida are going to the mid west, north and South Carolina, and other states and even Mexico!
People moving to FL are coming from the Northeast, Midwest and West
Florida is mostly made of water.
There is no freshwater shortage there, there is massive caves and fresh water springs everywere.
In the summer there is huge thunderstorms every day.
"Record breaking increase in storms" Meanwhile in real life recent years have been pretty calm by comparison
That "fact" was completely media-driven hype. The storms are no worse and no more frequent than since record keeping began.
Sea levels? I've been here my whole life and the water level at the on the seawall in my hometown ( which is right next to the inlet) has not changed... I guess the seawall level is rising too
Awesome presentation video ❤
The paper companies should pay for a lot of this issue.
I wonder if increasing the water table might also have an impact on the problem with sinkholes.
Amazing work. 🙏
In Star Trek: Enterprise, the alien Xindi attacked Earth by firing a space laser that dug a trench through Florida, killing the sister of one of the principal characters.
The only unrealistic part of that is that Florida will still be above sea level.
Al Gore (your hero) circa 1990, "Florida will be mostly under water by 2004!" Were you born yet since that was supposed to happen? I'm still waiting. NY flooded too btw. No more Manhattan or Long Island. No more ice caps, and all the polar bears drowned. Learn from history, or you are doomed to repeat it.
I lived in Florida and continue to visit every quarter after class, I take a road trip for shells and pods or just to clear my head for a day or two. Most people were trying to avoid the 🔒 👇🏼
Politicians do NOT help anything anywhere unless it benefits them
It’s so nice we are fixing the Everglades. Just in time to have it get flooded with the rest of the state when the sea levels rise
Love our tourists ! Yes, please come visit, but don't move here. The wild areas and all the critters who call them home are under way too much pressure. Turning farm land into gated communities should be criminal !!! And if you do, buy a used or even an abandoned home, and do NOT fertilize. Use nature to do your fertilizing.
There was a law passed over 20 years ago for this unstraightening of canals. What took them so long to start this?
Florida is currently losing population. It has a home insurance problem, where people are leaving the state. 15 insurance companies have have cancelled all policies in the state because of all the hurricanes were costing too much.
The hurricanes weren't costing too much. The lawyers, and roofers, and contractors, and everyone wanting to sue for something led the insurance companies to leave.
Vanguard and blackrock also told the large firms if they did not pull their funding from the State of Florida they would cutoff their funding from them from all the other states as Florida passed bills that put an end to DEI in businesses.
We are GAINING population. !
I'm a Floridian, been here my whole life. Your comment is misinformation. More people continue to move here than leave. Most people are not home owners and therefore aren't affected by the homeowner policies. And the other reply is correct. It's fraud, not hurricanes, driving insurers away.
@@francineodonnell2598 the comment where he stated that the state is losing population is not true as more people are moving here than leaving. Most people that rent are renting from owners that do in fact pay homeowners insurance so this affects most homes
There are no "concrete" canals here in Florida. They are however rocky because we have coral rock right before the dirt surface.
What?!?! There is rocks in Florida? All I see is sand, SAND EVERYWHERE! And water table two feet under.
@@jimmahr.4665 If you ever used a shovel here in Florida, you would not say what you did. lol.
Mother Nature: Behold I give you Florida and the river of grass.
Florida-Man: Hold my beer.
I didn't expect such a positive story!
i've been here 63 years. the sea is NOT rising.
Bwahahaha ... citation needed!
PS, you won’t find any, because you’re wrong.
IS THAT WHY DEATHSANTIS IS SPENDING100 MILLION TO RAISE THE SEAWALLS AND RAISING THE SIDEWALKS 2 FEET IN THE MIAMI AREA???
Drive down las Olas slick
@@johnx4181 erosion is different from sea level rise. if it was rising the keys would be under water sport.
@@domcizek really? proof/link please.
Last I remember the sun was scorching hot at 7 am, 8 at the latest and it stayed till 7 pm. I think they've increased the UV factor with all the Arial Spraying.
Nature: They're so cute these apes with their little sticks and buckets. Well, back to work. We have a sea level to rise tens of feet.
My relatives have lived in the Sarasota area for decades, starting to my knowledge in the early 60s and are still there with each generation moving to the area to take care of the earlier generation. So I in my 70 years have traveled through about 2/3 of Florida often. I am also an engineer. You talk about the removal of the Tamiami Trail but should mention that interstate 75 north of it is the same thing. Both is a dredged dike blocking the fee flow of water. Without the 80 miles dikes remove nothing is going to change. There may be more bridges but nothing compared to the free flow of water of a road way on pillars such as the one running to the Florida Keys.
It will probably be a smart future if they continued operating the way they are.
It is very sad what we have done to this planet. I am not an "environmentalist", but I do think we can do better.
Solution...4 billlion less people...4 billion more trees.
Greater Everglades Ecosystem begins in the Kissimmee River north of Lake Okeechobee
This is amazing!
Thanks to Paul Tudor Jones II for his unending push to get this project going and funded.....he and others like him, using their resources and influence, have been the dynamic force to bring this much needed project into reality. And thanks to the countless other folks who also do the invisible and critical lifting and carrying.
Wonderful I recall geography ecology classes debating the disasters to come n now being removed Halelujah
They are not growing that fast lots and i mean thousands of housing of high raises are empy. That lake is a nutrient rice cesspool that is overflowing estuaries with toxicity
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, ? I GUESS YOU DONT LIVE IN FLORIDA, OVER 1000 PEOPLE A DAY MOVING TO FLORIDA AND NEED SOME PLACE TO LIVE
I lived in Florida for 10. Never going back.
It’s best if rich or can remote work, or retired because you will live in ac or run for cover.
This would be an actual fucking modern marvel if this all pans out. It would prove that humanity can restore ecological regions destroyed by human activity. The costs aren’t all that high either.
Post Glacier rebound is still occuring in areas like Florida there and around the world.
Finally , a success ❤
We try so hard to do what’s right
But who decides what’s right
Stop trying , natures at work
Cloud seeding. Will be our next Kissamee river
Have you seen lake ocechobee lately nothing but green alge. And don't get me started on Red Tide in Charlotte harbor, from the Peace river.😢
Born and raised in Florida 45 years here, Florida Is being destroyed? It is nothing at all. Like it used to be, it is such a sad, devastating sight. You might come here now, not ever being here and think that it is paradise, but it's far from that it is overwhelming.
Destruction Forest, not much left, it has substained way. Too much destruction is it sad very sad
You know, if this were actually important it would be important enough for a human to talk about.
What does that mean exactly? because all it takes is to look at our channel and you would see we are a team of PEOPLE
Very sad what happened to Kossismmee, glad to see things are being done to fix what wrongs were done.
Too many golf courses.
We could put a big dent in this problem by stopping the planting of lawns on all our houses.
So, if a multi-year project to restore Florida waterway health, that benefits both people and wildlife is successful,...why would anyone call it "insane"?
kiss-SIMM-ee, not KISS-simm-ee.
removing Brazilian Pepper from the state is impossible, the seeds are spread by birds. The state has taken a mitigation approach, rather than elimination as the plant will regrow if burned or treated with herbicides (e.g. glyphosate). It is removed as much as possible from wild areas and must be removed (dug out) from areas to be developed. Existing stands on private property do not have to remove them so the problem will never go away.
I think they meant to say whether modification creating never seen hurricane strengths
We're just gonna build sht taller. That's what happened to Ft. Lauderdale, Miami . Palm Beach county it starting to get taller now. They raised the height limit of the buildings along the water quite a bit. Which I'm good with. Build a big wall of wind brakes across the fkn shore line.
It is Remarkably Dry again this spring season
I used to have to check weather for rain every day
Not anymore
A bunch of grapefruit and orange groves were sold to developers, and condos have gone up. The building is terrible for the rural infrastructure here. Crap . The roads are impossible already.
Norwegian wave abatement and Spaniard flood controls would greatly help.
Thankyousoooomuch!!!
Humans have done amazing things, but most of it was done in complete ignorance. Glad to see we are learning and undoing some of our past mistakes.
Took millions of dollars to destroy the land, and it will take billions of dollars to restore it. Way to go, florida legislature.
How would sea levels rise if arctic ice is increasing?
Development really hurt Florida!