Welcome to Miami. The year is 2100.
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00:00Welcome to beautiful, tropical, sunny Miami where people are literally under water after it rained for 30 minutes.
00:17It's going to be quite a bit different than what it is now. We're going to be living with a lot more water. No question about it.
00:30People have this sense that as sea level rises, that means that there's going to be flood water everywhere all the time. That's not really what happens.
00:54What's going to be happening, I think, over the next 30 years or so is you're going to see more days that there's going to be flooding in front of your house.
01:04Only in Miami does the sewage back up onto the street and flood all of these cars. That's so nasty.
01:24Look, bro, this is Florida weather right now. You want to go swim, go swim.
01:35The problem with Miami, we live on very porous limestone, so you can't put a dike or a levee around us and keep the water out. It'll come right up through the rock.
02:05It is not unanimous amongst scientists that it is disproportionately man-made.
02:33Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us believe.
02:38When I first came to Florida, there was just tremendous resistance to even talking about climate change. I think the debate has evolved. Now the argument is about what are we going to do? How are we going to invest? What investments are we going to make? That's a healthy argument.
02:54Our activity affects the environment. I don't know to what extent. I mean, for example, in South Florida, I think we have a real serious problem with the increased flooding and the higher water levels.
03:04Obviously, we want to be able to identify why did this happen? Is this something that was unique to this building?
03:21It's brought to the forefront that there may be challenges with our buildings, the built infrastructure along the coastline that we had not anticipated 40 years ago.
03:32The precise role of climate change is an open question, totally unresolved, but I do think there's going to be a massive response in terms of building codes, checking existing buildings, shoring them up, figuring out how much of a challenge climate change is today and how much of a challenge it's going to be going forward.
03:48We're going to have some challenges. We're going to have to live with more water, but we're going to embrace it. It's actually going to turn out to be an exciting thing.