In "we can adapt" news:
• 1998: cracks reported in dams
• 2011: project to fix them halted
• budget allocated to fix them every year since but nothing done
• 2021: audit bureau criticises procrastination
• 2022: engineer warns of catastrophe
People who say that adaptation is cheap and easy and will somehow just happen automatically are wrong. It requires sustained political will to overcome the in-built tendency not to act to mitigate serious risks which haven't yet materialised.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-burst-dams-had-decades-old-cracks-says-official
@hjcksn we repeat our mistakes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood?wprov=sfti1