Philosophy Wire: Walk down that pavement.

Think your daily coffee, boutique gym membership and airport lounge access cost a lot? There may be an additional, hidden cost to those luxuries of urban living, says a new study: more flooding. For every percentage point increase in roads, parking lots and other impervious surfaces that prevent water from flowing into the ground, annual floods increase on average by 3.3%, the researchers found. [1] Walking in the streets we are. And soon we will be under the ocean. And like a new Atlantis. We will be forgotten. We will be eternal. Watch the calm lake. Look the water rising. To kill everything. And be reborn. So that you can walk again down the path. And know that there was no path in the first place. Except the path you walk. Look at the calm lake. No, it is not the water rising. It is you descending…

But there is no other way to swim…

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