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  I like how they show some nice old middle class looking dude in an well cared for but older home. They thought hard about that picture. Pics of the many multi million dollar homes I guess wouldn’t elicit the same response
context: Just throwing money into the ocean.... >
  
  They should just buy these people out. Knock down the house and restore the land. They can move inland. >
  
  As Venice how the sea walls are working.  Just declare the areas uninsurable so the rest of us don't pay for, buying the land has to be cheaper than fighting inevitable. >
  
  Just ask the Dutch how the sea walls are working… >
  
  That's like asking the Thwaites Glacier not to shatter next year. In other words, what difference is it really going to make? >
  
  We're coming up on 70 years with no flooding thanks to the Delta Works, so I'd say there's a pretty big difference. >
  
  Well you've been working with centimeters of sea rise. Let's see how it works with meters 70 years early. Good luck ;) >
  
  Thats why we're spending over a billion per year, upgrading to the the worst of the current projections instead of the average of the 1990s projections >
  
  Best of Luck. >
  
  As someone living at 5m below sea level, thanks! >
  
  Let's become the new Netherlands, as we were always meant to be.