New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn By MIREYA NAVARRO

My name is Ibrahim. In this blog I am responding to an assignment in my ENG 101 composition class on climate change. The assignment asked me to acknowledge an article of The New York Times and summarize it in my own words. Based on this article, New York City might get hit by many hazardous weathers by the next half century. However, we are not ready for these types of natural disasters. According to Adam Freed “It’s a million small changes that need to happen. Everything you do has to be a calculation of the risks and benefits and costs you face". What Adam Freed was trying to say was that there are many changes to be made, but you cant be sure of the risks, benefits, or costs that the changes will imply. The article really just explains that New York isn't trying hard enough on finding out ways to prevent these natural disasters. A top comment from the readers pick, Jim Gordan, says "One of the most important and effective measures we need to take in order to ensure the health of our infrastructure, health and environment is to rapidly transition to clean and renewable energy. I agree with Jim Gordan because spending billions on a gate to prevent a flood temporarily will not help us in the long run. We need to find ways to survive when a natural disaster hits us. We need to have a proper reaction to survive instead of finding ways to prevent it temporarily.