It’s always alarming when a person or organization acknowledges a problem without also presenting a well thought out solution. This was my initial reaction to the PlaNYC page detailing some of the particularly frightening projections for the future of New York’s environment. The page did seem to offer a few actual plans for combating climate change, but they were hidden behind links, PDF downloads, and not presented in a particularly accessible manner. It gives off the impression that the plans weren’t well enough thought out to show off on a front page as a concrete solution.

This lack of concrete solution became even more alarming while going through the following readings, which detailed the chaos and public outcry that leads up to and follows natural disasters. The enormous and passionate demonstrations of concerned New Yorkers that the NY Times article reported on make it clear that people want real answers for the issues of global warming, and it’s near tragic that none have been easily presented. Furthermore, the threat of political turmoil like that which followed Hurricane Katrina is looming over New York now more than ever with the significant threat that global warming poses as a climate crisis.