New York Times ranks Chicago world's most climate-resilient city
1 Sep 10 3:29 PM · 13d ago · 1 post · 23 comments · 1 source · development 1 of 1
The New York Times published an article examining cities' climate preparedness. Chicago was ranked the most climate-resilient city in the world, with no other U.S. cities appearing in the top 20 most resilient locations.
“Here in Chicago we are smart enough to look ahead 👍”
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Chicago has been ranked the most climate-resilient city in the world. No other U.S. cities made the list of the top 20 most resilient locations.
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That’s because global warming will finally make Chicago liveable in the Winter 😂
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Here in Chicago we are smart enough to look ahead 👍
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I remember being in high school in the 90s when they started restoring the wetlands to help with the suburbs flooding.
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The biggest threat to the GL basin is having the Great Lakes ringed by data centers. Only rain replaces water taken from the Lakes. It doesn’t take much to create the Colorado River problem. AI oligarchs only care about how fast they can make (or lose) money while wasting water and heating up earth.
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back that up with speaking boldly about transit, bike/ped infrastructure bringing us to a higher level over reliance on cars causes pollution and expensive maintenance, let’s get one rung further up the ladder
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Just about any rust belt city should do, though. IF they've not contaminated their largest drinking water sources with industrial and nuclear waste. I'm lookin at you, Flint, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany.
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Great job Chicago. It's a damn shame that instead of spending money to battle climate change, now spend even more money to survive it.
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Liberal governance does that sort of thing.
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we DIDN'T move there in 2008,when my husband was offered locations for transfer, when AT&T closed down his division in San Diego.... so we moved to texas instead. texas. I hate texas. I love the friends I've made here but as a place? never thought I'd regret not moving to frigid Chicago. 😑
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Calumet is massively undervalued considering the new Quantum Computing start-ups going into the old steelworks site. Buy there. Renovate and rent to physics post-docs.
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I'm a native Chicagoan and resilient as they come. Standing on El platforms in minus 27 degrees temps made me resilient.
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Yeah, most of it is geography and weather patterns. Seen some comments in here about real preparations though!
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Cool city literally! Lake Michigan air conditioning pretty much all summer
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It's still not the flex people are making it out to be.
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Houston is definitely NOT on the right track.
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Well... draining Lake Superior is a few orders of magnitude harder than draining the Colorado. DCs don't make water disappear. The damage would be from pumping hot, possibly polluted, water back in. 🤮 40M Americans and alfalfa farmers take 24% of the Colorada is the issue out West.
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Lived there for two years and was miserable. Most of that was on my circumstances, but I ran to Florida and never intend to see cold weather again. Pictured: Global warming in Florida in 2025 (not joking, this is a direct result of heat)
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Yeah but they're fucking up all the streets making it harder for cars to navigate the city these people are not City planners their Saboteurs
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Funny how all the climate crazies are silent about data centers and the massive energy they use.
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