Infrastructure with speed, scale… and sustainability | Devindranauth Bissoon | TEDxAmazônia

Imagine living in a place where one moment the land is dry and cracked with extreme heat and where the trees and plants struggle to survive. The next moment, weeks after, extreme torrential rain comes without warning. Flooding homes, washing away roads, and those same dry fields become swampland.I grew up in Guyana coastland, nestled between the great Atlantic Ocean and the vast Amazon rainforest, where I experienced these extreme climate events firsthand, which became more frequent, more intense over time. ...