We will continue to see damaging flood incidents until there are some real structural changes and improvements to our infrastructure as a whole. Second reason is Climate change...means that Chicago's working class communities are experiencing more and more frequent hundred year storms and extreme weather. We need to build more climate resilient infrastructure, plant more trees to absorb water and modernize our infrastructure to account for this new reality. (08:25–08:37)
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Asserts that climate change is causing more frequent severe weather in Chicago's working-class areas.
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