Cardiff is among the most susceptible cities anywhere in Europe to the impacts of climate change. Being flat and close to the sea, only a few centimetres of rising sea levels would see massive parts of the city submerged. We’re asking people in Cardiff whether they’re concerned, and what they’d like to see done to help stop the impact.
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00:00Yeah, to an extent. I mean, you see a lot of places where the sea level, without sea
00:07walls and stuff like that, it can definitely affect it negatively. Sorry, negatively. I
00:13pronounced my words right. But yeah, I think it is a, it's definitely a threat. But I do
00:18think as a country, you know, we're doing not perfect, obviously. But, you know, we
00:24go to G7 meetings, we contribute with a lot of other things. It's just about pushing others
00:30to try and give that same contribution. I guess I'm worried about climate change overall.
00:38But not specific to climate change. How close is the sea? I feel like when I'm at the bay,
00:44I see a lot of like, the UK has got pretty good, like, maritime engineering. Yeah. Yeah,
00:52I think I like, I've been, it's been 15 days since I came here. And what I've heard is,
01:00by the days past, in the January, it will be like a snowfall and all. It will be minus
01:04two, the temperature. So I'm feeling a little tense because I'm not much, I'm from Bangalore,
01:11right? That's why. I mean, things aren't really getting better. Yeah, I've been flooding,
01:16especially in some areas of Cardiff. It's really, really bad. So, you know, that's concerning.
01:21I'm not planning on living here after my degree. For longer at least? Yeah. Yeah.
01:30Local level? I'm not sure. So I don't really lean into the punishments for anything,
01:37because I feel like at the end of the day, people should be able to live their lives.
01:41But I would like to see some maybe just incentive, you know, I don't know,
01:45encouragements of cycling or just more active, less polluting ways to get around. Especially,
01:52I mean, it helps with a lot of issues like congestion since they lowered the speed limit
01:57around here.