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Are We Just Doomed to Flooded Subways and Crumbling Condos?
Climate change is overwhelming us, but there’s already money to apocalypse-proof our infrastructure.
Pizza Rat has his work cut out for him.
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It feels like the writers on this season of Reality are getting kind of lazy. Like, isn’t it just a little on the nose to have New York City subways flood with hepatitis stew after one hard rainstorm, in a month when we already had collapsing Miami condos, face-melting Oregon weather, California droughts, and floods from Texas to Detroit? We get the picture already: Climate change is swallowing us alive, and our infrastructure can’t handle it.