Josh Clark

And that's really, really important because the sea levels rise.

If the soil level is rising, we don't have to worry quite as much about sea level rise there.

But that's only in some spots, as we'll see.

Wow.

Oh, yeah, because the storm surge is what gets you.

I mean, it can flood miles and miles inland.

It carries all sorts of debris with it.

It has so much energy.

It can just rip buildings down.

It's a real problem from hurricanes.

It's that flooding from the storm surge.

But because those mangroves are there to absorb a bunch of that energy, it just doesn't have the opportunity to come nearly as far inland.

So mangrove forests, especially thick ones, save human lives.

And you would guess animal lives, too.

Right.

I saw that a lot of those people died because they didn't use storm shelters in addition to the mangrove buffer being gone.

And that they had built the storm shelters, Chuck, after a 1970 cyclone that killed 500,000 people in Bangladesh.

Wow.

Can you believe that?

Can you imagine a storm killing half a million people in your country or your little area?