How "levee wars" are making floods worse

Correction: At 4:27 we show the city name as "Nijmegan". It should be "Nijmegen".

Youri Neeven its more triggering

Vox also note that you said holland instead of the netherlands.

I find it strange states in america have not found any creative ideas to mitigate floods, they just let floods destroy their lively hoods and call it day (strange), they should come up with better ideas to mitigate this, in western europe so many governments and local governments have invested in tech to try and mitigate floods

+Michael Loedel 🙄 I know right

"Don't build near rivers" - Holland

It’s called the netherlands goddammit

*c l i m a t e c h a n g e*

+CasinoR I agree completely.... Everyone is trying to argue for the argument... Hahaha

"dont be poor" :- rich people

Don’t buy a house built on a flood plane?

*Republicans*

Classic game theory states that each town will try to build the largest levee to protect themselves.

The game theoretical solution is always: The town with less money to use / lose with flooding builds a levee large enough that levee cost is matched with probably damage. The other town will then build a slightly taller levee than that.

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Down here in El Paso, TX., we have setback levees in some areas of the Rio Grande river. The space between the river and the levee was made into park areas with bike riding lanes and other stuff that actually makes for a great place to hang out. Poseidon reclaims his territory from time to time but he's usually pretty chill with us. 🇺🇸🏞🇲🇽

Never before I read such awesome term for flooding

Specops915 same with Dallas and the Trinity river :)

Trump also wants a tall levee with Mexico.

Now see, you aren't wrong, it would solve the problem... but not in the way you may think. **flashforward to news stories around the world reciting how America blew itself up by stepping into the minefields to attempt to prove why that particular instance of border wallvee was the world's best for keeping out refugees** +vin 950

A levee, a wall, some cannons, and a nice thick minefield should do the job.

*laughs in Dutch*

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

Huehue

"In Holland for example."Thanks Vox for making people even more confused about the name of my country.If you're gonna call it by the name of a province in the Netherlands, than at least call it Gelderland.

lol