60 Minutes climate archive: Venice is Drowning 

I'm grateful I was able to see Venice back in 2016 and capture the beauty of it while I still could.

I sent my son there through school five years ago because I knew I could not afford to go. He will always have those memories and he needed to see this beauty. He took so many pictures and talks about it to me years later. I did love the positivity in this video. Finding solutions and not giving up.

I’ve been to Venice back in the 1980’s. It’s a beautiful city and I’m very sorry to hear about this.

I was lucky to see Venice 10 years ago. The most amazing city i have been to.

Scientists have been warning us about this for a very long time. Politicians and corporations don't give a hoot. All their concern is about Money, Money, Money. A ton of people are also still asleep. The good thing about it is that it doesn't discriminate.

We visited Venice several times, once at a high tide when there was water in the streets. Given the way Venice is built. This was inevitable, and it’s perhaps best to do as we did- try to visit it before it’s just a memory.

The western part of the Netherlands had a very bad flood in 1953. It was s perfect storm. High tide, Storm and a full moon. My parent had 8 feet of water in the house. Right after, engineers started planning a way to protect the country from the North Sea. Complicated and costly systems were developed to close the waterways when a large storm hits. Being proactive pays off.

I was just there December 2021 with hardly any tourist in town; it was magical. I love this city.

I was in Venice back in 1979 about a month after they shot the Clock Tower seen in the movie Moonraker. Back then the streets were flooded and they had elevated walkways up to you could move about somewhat dry. It was nothing new back then, already the first floors of the buildings were half submerged. They built the city on islands in a lagoon and the weight of the buildings over time started sinking the city.

My heart sank when he said cities like LA will face unseen high tides. I’ve already seen it happening with my own eyes. San Pedro and Laguna Beach are being eroded very quickly by the rising water. There was a huge tide that breached from the shore into the streets of Newport Beach in 2020. That night I was walking along the coast of Hermosa beach and, the ocean brightly illuminated by a full moon, saw humongous waves barreling to shore from as far as the eye can see. I’ve never seen the ocean churn the way it did that night in my life. I’m not looking forward to how the ocean will reshape us when I’m an old man

People are not going to care until it affects them directly. I keep hearing about climate change but I'm not hearing solutions that the individual person can take to make a difference or ways to sell others on making personal changes to help.

On that day 12th of November, the water was really high because the wind push from the south of Adriatic to the city of Venice. I saw the water rising rapidly that I can't even save our thing inside our house. It was terrible.

Prayers for the families who live in Venice Italy such a beautiful city as a US NAVY veteran who has visited this city back in 1975 I hope God can answer Prayers and find a soultion to this problem

I got to visit Venice in 1990, loved it!!!! One of the BEST places to see in Italy! If you go there, be prepared to spend hours and hours taking pictures, and eating ;)

My heart just sinks and the tears flow for those people.

It's already happening in Florida. People living near the water have to pump water out of their neighborhoods.

Thank you for this report, awesome job. 👏👏👏

Venice started sinking the day they started building it. When you build below sea level or in a swamp or on sand you will have issues with floods or unstable buildings.

For this storm they didn’t close the MOSE flood barrier system which would have prevented the flooding. The miscalculated it’s destructiveness and the storm came quickly. Hopefully the MOSE system will save Venice.

Venice will become a scuba diving destination in 100 years.

I feel it important to know these events that are occurring in our world and our lives but part of me doesn't want to know it's just one disaster after the next.

I went to Venice for the first time in 1982. The view from the water was spectacular. The we landed and it was like sticking your head down the hole of a port-a-potty. The stench of sewage and filth was ancient and nauseating.

The week after I visited Venice with my family the city experienced 6-8 feet of flooding in some parts. Mumbai, NYC, St. Petersburg (FL), Miami, and Shanghai all have issues regarding sea-level rise

For 40 years I have heard the clock ticking and as a kid would run downstairs to watch 60 Minutes. Amazing how much has changed, it's an entirely different world, clock still ticking.

The mayor is being brave and constructive in face of crisis and I think that is so admirable.

I'm sad for this beautiful city.🙏

It's long been known that Venice suffers from subsidence. Built on a muddy lagoon with inadequate foundations, the ground beneath it has slowly compacted over time. This, combined with the groundwater being pumped out from under the city and a gradual rise in sea levels, has resulted in the city very slowly sinking.Sep 28, 2018

It is very sad to see this happening to Venice. My wife and I visited there 4 years ago. I am glad we got to see it.

Venice is a beautiful place ,♥ beautiful kind people

WE HAVE 30 YEARS TO PROTECT OUR COASTAL CITIES FROM THE IMPENDING FLOODING . I don’t see us doing anything proactive to prevent this oncoming disaster . Let the migration begin .

This is really sad. I visited Venice a long time ago. I have relatives in Italy, so they wined and dined me, and showed me places tourists don't know about. It was a beautiful, sunny day.... incredible art, food, people strolling... What a terrible price we are going to pay for our lack of care for our planet.

Is Venice Sinking or Is the Water Rising? Venice, Italy is literally sinking. It has always experienced flooding from acqua alta (exceptionally high tides) but the frequency of these events has increased. ... As a result, the ground floor of many of Venice's buildings are now uninhabitable .Oct 14, 2021 Venice, Italy, is sinking at the alarming rate of 1 millimeter per year. Not only is it sinking, but it is also tilting to the east and battling against flooding and rising sea levels. ... Venice was originally founded as a series of 118 islands separated by canals with 400 bridges that link them.

The heart of the issue on full display at 3:35!!

Amazing, history repeats itself, from age to age; ever lost in the space of time.

Florida/Louisiana take notes

The world is filled with abandoned cities. The climate is constantly changing, with or without cars, and that results in population shifts. Cities fail from drought, floods, volcanic eruptions, you name it. Venice is the latest city about to die. Such is life.

I hear this every year. Iam pretty grateful I was able to visit there when it wasn’t flooding at least once in my life time. Pretty cool since I replayed Assassin Creed 2.

Miami in a few decades is going to be the exact same

That engineer said end of 2021 project Moses would be finished. Does anybody have any updates on this, should be done by now right? Or more delays?

Such a beautiful city...hope I can still visit in the near future & this corrects!

Greed for power and money, especially by politicians will destroy us all.We the people need to hold politicians accountable now more than ever, or suffer the consequences.

Loved Venice, Italy. Magical place.

I was at Venice in 1972 and the city was sinking then. At that time Americans were told the world was heading into another "ice age". Build a city on sea level you are going to get flooded often.

We should have woken up decades ago, this is so heartbreaking 😥

It is called Subduction. The Adriatic plate, on which Venice sits, is subducting beneath the Apennines Mountains and causing the city and its environs to drop slightly in elevation.

“Let’s save Venice to save the world” What a beautiful statement. The People there are so connected to the water, art, and to each other, it’s so wonderful to see

I was so blessed to visit Venice a few years back, tides were already damaging the Basilicata. There were pallets to be put out to keep feet dry when tides came in. They'd not help now. Very sad tragic for residents and this beautiful cuty.

The beaches here in Puerto Rico are eroding as well.

In the past, during the Venetian Republic, or the Highly Serene Republic, there was a figure, called "Magistrate to the Waters", whose main task was that of keeping under control the tides and the safety of the city. If the waters raised too much or the city was flooded, he was sentenced to death and his head was cut. So he took great care that all the canals were cleaned and in good order and that the openings between the lagoon and the open sea were kept free and flowing. Now most part of the canals are dirty, so that their are less deep and this is a great problem. As always, it's the man's fault, not nature's

Put the Dutch in charge, they've been successfully dealing with the sea for hundreds of years

Prayers 🙏 Venice ⛪ Much Love 💞

If it's below sea level, cut your losses and relocate it. It's the smartest and cheapest ways.

We are getting soooooo much snow here in Lake Tahoe

Venice was a structural failure before they ever put up a building it’s literally built by the sea and it’s lower then the sea level…. Warming or not this was bound to happen

Venice has several live cams. You might want check them out.

How sad, such a beautiful city

Never been there would love to visit Europe in the future!

Such a beautiful city.

I went to Venice, Athens, Santorini , Barcelona, Milan and Rome, 1 month before Covid. I was so lucky. Those places are beautiful. Just like my own country Mexico.

2020 was the year of fire, 2021 the year of water.

If this were a movie (and oh, do I wish it were), the tagline would be something like "Save Venice, Save the World". We're all connected on this Earth, one way or another. The greed that drives the root causes of climate change seems a pointless thing. If our planet becomes unhospitable to Human life, then money and other markers of wealth become valueless and meaningless. Just a thought.

The interviewer is great. He asks really good questions!

Go under all the original pilings and construct floats, like a dock, segmented pontoons that will allow the top of water grade to fluctuate with sea levels. Huge concrete pontoons to float and retain Venice, like a dock.

One of my dream country 😭 praying for fast recovery 🙏

The left out the fresh water drilling in the 1960’s that forever damaged the structural integrity of the city built on had clay and wood pilings

I'm sorry to hear this. 😔

Venice, Miami Beach etc sell now or the near future. I live in Portugal the high tides are pushing more inland in the rivers, fertile soils are becoming salty, hence destroyed.

Venice was amazing. We took the train from Milan and when we stepped out of the train station, the beauty took my breath away. One of the most amazing places I've ever visited. I am sad for all of the locals. Their history and lifetime of memories. All it takes is one big meteor or supervolcano to freeze the earth once again....eek, then we will have a whole new issue to worry about. Makes you wonder if Darpa has anything to do with any of this.

When you know how the city was built, where and how the buildings were built, what they built on with what materials you understand why the city is really in danger.

I went to Venice in 2007. This is so awful to watch. I hope someone comes up with an idea to prevent the city from drowning

This is heartbreaking

We ate losing the planet due (mostly) to science deniers. We’ve had three tornadoes in the same day in the smallest city in the US where we don’t get tornadoes. We’ve also had an earthquake. The wind has been crazy the last couple of years.

The mold situation has got to be disgusting.

The most serene.

I'll never be able to see Venice. So sad to hear this is happening

Dear 60 Minutes, Venice is drowning because Venice is built on a swamp. It's been drowning for 2,000 years. There just has never been a TV crew to witness it drowning all those years.

God help us ♥️

I like the mayor a lot he seems like a sensible and intelligent man

Here is a tip… If you need an engineering wall… You might be in a low lying area and need to relocate. Because the ebb and flow of world waterways is currently set in “Flow”. Just like New York city, if you build it on the water, expect the water to visit you. It’s not climate crisis… It’s called #MotherNature

And a year later, Venice canals are drying up. 😂 We fought climate change too hard.

It’s only a matter of time before things start to fall apart

News from yesterday: “venice canals almost dry due to low tides and lack of rain”…. Almost like its just normal

Venice, the Maldives, ect drowning. This is very sad! 😢😢😢

Don’t build your house on the sand

Build up -fast or move out. Save your history. Vulnerability has never been a surprise. It's been coming for years. Planning is the key. Climate change is in effect.

Can you turn on CC (closed captioning)?

All the beautiful places I wanted to visit are disappearing. My heart is breaking. 💔

if the sea is rising, wouldn't KEY WEST be underwater or does the law of physics only apply around Miami

The water reseeded after the flood! As he said: a storm surge!

I can only imagine ! Beautiful Venus highly known and admired amazingly beautiful ,and the architects highly intelligent . God bless them and save all who reside there in these days of climate change.

I too visited back in 1997. The plaza and surrounding buildings flooded. It was heartbreaking. In 2017 my home near Houston, Texas USA flooded. It has been hard ever since and each time it rains, I loose my breath. I am reminded on Venice each time I hear of floods.

The Air Quality of the World has just 24 Countries that the WHO have reached the target goal, including the USA, what we need is to get the rest of the world down with these levels first.

I’m just gonna say it- As a Christian, not evangelical, real Sabbath-keeping, commandment -obeying Christian- Seventh Day Adventist. It really does seem like in these very last days, God’s people are living totally different lives in different worlds. (safe and protected) vs those that are lost and unsaved. Just like Psalm 91 states. Prophecy is coming to pass like never before. We’re not experiencing no where near anything like the extreme evangelicals are, the non believers, the wicked or the like. It’s so surreal at times. It’s really happening that God is bringing people into judgment and protecting His Remanent. Of those who keep the commandments of God, have the faith of Jesus and have the testimony of Jesus Christ which is the Spirit of prophecy. (Revelation 19:10) Psalm 91:1-16 ESV My Refuge and My Fortress 91 He who dwells in athe shelter of the Most High will abide in bthe shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say1 to the Lord, “My crefuge and my dfortress, my God, in whom I etrust.” 3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. 5 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 8 You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place- the Most High, who is my refuge- 10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent. 11 For he will command his sangels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. 12 On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. 13 You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot. 14 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he aknows my name. 15 When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

Him at the end trying to say use it as an example and let’s use this as research. I believe this is beautiful Let us learn from this I truely cried at the thought of the world at the brink of collapse

Venice has been dieing since the day it was built! Hard work and lots of engineering has kept it going!

First, the news presenter moves his head far too much in the introduction, it looks like he is trying to be more dynamic. He does a good job of interviewing people. Second, isn't it time to realize the inevitable? Abu Simbel in Egypt is the answer for Venice. It's time to re-locate this ancient treasure of humanity. They can do it; they've done it before. You can't stop the rising seas, but you can re-locate an entire city inland.

There are exactly 2 options: 1. Build a sea wall around the city to protect it, and 2. abandon the city. My advice is to get started on the sea wall

Retractable seawalls with built in pumps (activated by water / level sensor) Pumps water into A) desalination --> public works ---> recycle --> recirculate B) irrigation lines C) turbines & steam plants

Well I'm glad we went at least once, in 2016. I really loved it there. Wasn't bad at that time tho they did have tables set up in front of St Marks in preparation.

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