A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/07/climate/chicago-river-lake-michigan.html
Superb essay on nature's dominant power temporarily held in check by itself not by feeble humans. Chicago as the birthplace of high-rises now spread across the globe, willy-nilly as the finance and design industries play their games of chance to win over the dormant forces of seismic, wind and war.
Supertall buildings are kissing cousins of weapons inventors forever reaching for greater explosive power, at least the terrifying threat to fire the loaded devices, so goes the taller and ever taller piles of luxurious privilege and daring the odds will not turn against elaborate designs of computers and wind tunnels and historical weather patterns.
So it goes, test and tamper and taunt seemingly benign nature, unleashing human nature to play god and take chances, channel mega-wealth into a few well-crafted canals, aka downtowns of megalopolices stacked with pockets of high-flyers relishing gazing down up the low-swimmers of sewage.
Then the peasant servants cannot get to work to serve the deities, OMG, the royals beseech, call in the guardians of our galaxy, we must have our needs be met.
Uh huh, be right there, milords. Hold my beer, honey.
Holding the beer honey