Sh-t Doesn’t Just Happen

To further examine the effects of climate change that we’re already feeling, let’s plunge from the skies to the sludgy ground that used to be a reasonable distance above septic systems. Until the sea started to rise. “For all the obvious challenges facing South Florida as sea levels surge, one serious threat to public health and the environment remains largely out of sight, but everywhere: Septic tanks. Millions of them dot the American South, a region grappling with some of the planet’s fastest-rising seas, according to a Washington Post analysis. At more than a dozen tide gauges from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels have risen at least 6 inches since 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.” A Hidden Threat.