As the world heats up and sea levels rise, communities in the U.S. could spend more than $400 billion on seawalls to try to hold the ocean back over the next couple of decades. But there’s a catch: Building a seawall in one area can often mean that flooding gets even worse in another neighborhood or city nearby. — Fast Company
A new paper from The Natural Capital Project at Stanford University that examines how seawalls might impact California's Bay Area was published this spring, adding to a slate of similar scholarship surrounding seawalls that have cropped up in recent years. Other efforts have seen a vigorous public pushback where proposed.
Cities like New York and Copenhagen have mulled plans for expensive sea walls that may in the end be inadequate. Some have pointed to the damaging effects on beaches as potential non-starters.
Fast Company has more on the encroaching issue here.
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Depends on the "sea wall"? ...
The ones, plural, I propose and submit we will be needing for the 5th
biggest and most important economy/Community on our planet (one too big to fail!) here on linked in @ http://sipodemos.democrat is a different matter...
Quoting myself @ https://twitter.com/DouglasDeitch/status/1374672809163550720
"VAST majority of the water/food/RE resources of World's 5th biggest
economy/Community are inextricably tied to
SFBay/Delta/Sierra-Snowpak&CentralValleyag. CCC predicts 3.5ftSLR in 30 years@ http://documents.coastal.ca.gov/assets/slr/CCCendorsement_SLRPrinciples.pdf . 5:42@ http://sandiegorealestate.com Dr.Mount sez what 1 foot will do!"
Don't adapt, RESIST! Gotta protect those RE values ...
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