Though I read voraciously about the climate crisis, I found this article shocking. Sobering.
Great reporting by @cflav.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/climate/seawalls-cities-cost-climate-change.html …
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"growing consensus... that coastal areas will require significant spending to ride out future storms and rising sea levels — not in decades, but now and in the very near future. There is also a growing realization that some communities, even sizable ones, will be left behind."
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"The new research identifies 241 cities of 25,000 people or more that will require at least $10 million worth of sea walls by 2040 just to protect against a typical annual storm."
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this:
“This is the next wave of climate denial — denying the costs that we’re all facing.”Show this thread -
Most of us, and I include myself in this, can't even begin to imagine what climate chaos will look like as the
#ClimateCrisis disrupts – violently for many – every aspect of our lives and culture. Sometimes I try to really, actively imagine. It's mind-bending shit.Show this thread
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