2011 06 21: Climate change - floods - and measures - IMPORTANT - with subtitles

Michael Palomino (*1964) was working with environment protectors in 2004 demonstrating for the protection of a river in the region of Basel against the construction of a so called custem free motorway along a river. By this there is the knowledge about the rivers. In the lecture there are factors shown provoking the big floods of nowadays provoking a "modern deluge". It's not only the climate change and the burning of fuels, but many more factors are playing it's role which hardly or not at all are mentioned until today in the media: destruction of forests, channelling of the rivers since 1700, the sealing of the landscpe, and the rising snow line, and the compressing of the earth by "modern" agriculture. Michael Palomino also suggests measures preventing the floods: renewable energies, forests, enlarging riverbeds, side arms or water tunnels, greening of flat roofs and terraces, roof water should be given to the pastures, converting streets reducing bituminization by 50 %, adapting weirs, and handling the earth of "modern" agriculture with earthworms. Web site: http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch. Code of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ERU2HJyE7c

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Education

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• Climate
• change
• floods
• and
• measures