Venice Is Drowning: Engineering Expert Explains How To Save It | WSJ Pro Perfected 

Giovanni’s ability to explain a such serious problem so calmly is actually more fascinating than the problem itself 👏🏾👏🏾

Very informative video. Nicely edited. I liked the balance between narrator and expert

Comparing the base of a city to a souffle gave me chills. Engineering is awesome but we're playing with the ultimate boss.

Venice must be saved! ❤

3:25 just look at that rooftop park

venice is such an iconic and gorgeous city full of heritage

Well done video and editing. One of the best videos in a while

Very interesting methode ! I'm glad to see Venice's future to be brighter hopefully!

Save Venice, please. One the most magical, surreal places I have been to.

Venice is more magical than Disney, please save it!!!

any resources on the "super levee" idea? i've done a bit of googling, but everything seems to be about MOSE, i haven't been able to find a real proposal or discussion of the super levee

Always great to see the Real Heroes of society provide their professional expertise.

Can you include Metric Numbers? Like at 1:35, there is a Human for reference, but measured in feet. At 3:26 Meters is used and then back to inches

Venice has been sinking for a 1000 years. Traditionally, people would abandon the ground floor of their buildings, raise the roads (or turn them into canals) and add a new floor on top.

My name is Giovanni Cecconi, but everybody calls me Giorgio

Saw this after watching Lift on Netflix. What a coincidence.

Makes Atlantis seem a lot more plausible

I want this man to narrate every video. All of them.

“Thus solving the problem once and for all.” “But-“ “ONCE AND FOR ALL!!”

how? get more sand and debris to block water and lift city

There is literally no hope for the city as ice caps continue to melt. Rebuild uphill.

50 years from now, they'd either have to completely change the city to make it survive, or they'd have to completely abandon it. Neither is ideal, but that's what it is.

and how long has this realization been around? and still nothing is done?

Let it go!

The world have to come together, in an effort to slow down climate change! Venice is a clear example of what could happen to cities if the average temperature gets warmer!

WSJ 😃

please indicate both metric and non metric units. It is really hard to follow the video if you are used to metric units.

GGs Venice

It is nature's call. No engineering can withstand the wrath of nature. Abandonment of the city before it forces you to abandon is the right choice left in your hand.

Dumping sewage in the sea seems a bigger problem..

Mamma mia. La pasta, la pasta !

First let’s forbid those massive cruises to come in

Am I the only one who thinks this super-levee is a bad idea? Just build permanent barriers directly at the banks of the city! Seal off all water-facing ground-floor's facades and errect permanent Stone walls up to 2 Meters from the water's surface. Oh and while you are at it: Reduce the number of tourists. My suggestions: get rid of that car bridge that connects the city to the mainland and make it illegal to drive a boat through the city that isn't registered in the city.

2024 🙏

How city get lifted 13 ft? Can’t understand min 5:30. What do you mean by creating a lake? Means st Mark completely underwater? Animation misleading. Houses shown on the super levee supposed to be the new construction?

Save Venice 😢😢😢

Who needs super man when we have engineers to save us. I can never regret choosing engineering

the animation confuses me LOL, are they gonna raise the whole city 12 feet??

When a civilization is built upon ports, and those ports are submerged or high and dry, that ends the civilization because the supply chain disruption is so severe. WHAT'S THE ROLE OF FOUNDATION MODELS? Well, you can input all marine archeology and archeology from ports and sea shores such as Troy, Byblos, Shore Forts Roman Britain, Isle Thanet Roman Britain, Chapter 18, Book of Revelation, Egypt, Pompei, Carthage, Caesaria , Israel, and so on PLUS multi modal such as measurements from Rome's port. Then search popular climate change literature from past few decades. Next: AI can search for maritime architectural and civil engineering solutions. Apparently, prior to Rome's hydrophilic cement, ports were designed for sea level fluctuations with hydraulic solutions, much like Canada's St Lawrence Seaway. Troy for example. This is just one way AI can save civilization. You could form a GAN to see what the solution is: Lithium vehicles versus civil engineering.

❓ I thought Venice should be flooded all the time🤷‍♀️

Venice wait for me to tour your place.

this is a bandaid fix. the issue is global warming…

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1204.

Cough, Cough, Atlantopa!

Any upgrades or blockages, It’s only the short term solution! End of the day, we can’t beat the FORCE of Mother Nature ya! 🌊

Where are thou the DOGE's brilliant ancestral descendant SOLUTION to constant FLOODING ?.

I had the chance to visit Venice in 1982. I skipped it. It was too busy then.

Drain the swamp.

Lost cause. Can't stop the glaciers melting. Too little too late.

The same will happen in Alaska in the future and trillions of dollars in infrastructure will go to waste, since they literally built on the edge of water.

Just abandon it. They can make submarine rides for tourists later.

People need to stop using fkn feet and inches when talking about any meaningful measurements. I bet they made the engineer use inches too, just because it's an american platform. We all know that an engineer would never use the moronic imperial system.

Solution is move somewhere else. Stop trying to live in a place nature doesn't want you to live in.

Sounds like Venice is done ..

I can't believe an Italian engineer is using inches... I'm baffled. An insult to the engineering world.

Just call the Dutch!

Exercise in futility if global warming is not addressed. The sea level will continue to rise.

Humm, can I trust Italian engineers 🤔?

Glad this is another countries $$$ NOLA needs to suck it up and move away... 😢

Just let it sink. It's basically just a tourist trap.

3:05 sounds like Venice needs to get their 💩 together and spend some money not polluting the ocean. 🌊

At some point we need to come to a realization: it’s too late. Sea level rise is inevitable, the climate is changing and there is no longer a chance for change. New Orleans, Miami, Venice, most Pacific atolls, they are not going to be habitable much longer. Better to face that reality now than continuing to pump money and effort into a lost cause….

Eh, I've been, but I'd abandon it. Give submarine tours as someone else said in the comments. I'm glad I'm not an Italian citizen being as to fork over money. We already got problems here in the U.S.A of people wanting to subsidize flood insurance for people who live in the cost. That's just the cost of living on the coast. If you don't like it move. If no one buys your house cause it's half underwater, shoulda thought of that before you bought it. This is going to continue to be an issue all over as much of human civilization is on the coast, for good reason. But consequences are a fact of life.

China seems to have success building islands. I'm not saying it'd be stable and wouldn't just sink into the ocean faster, but hey.

I love how the news doesn’t cover this stuff just RU-vid government puts the real thing on here

He helps design a $6 billion solution that didn't work, and now wants a redo...

It's very simpel don't let the cruiseschip in. The system works perfectly just as the corruption. And stop complaining.

Fake news...mose saved venice 15 times in 2023 and tjday is operational too😂

Stop wasting money on something that cannot be saved. Let it go and relocate.

Ha, ha, measurements in feet! How is this still a thing? C'mon, you can (and should) do better than that, WSJ.

And drump does not believe in global warming 😂😂😂 vote blue