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  If it’s any consolation, your grandchildren will only see a 12” sea level rise. It’s your great great grandchildren who are fucked. Ask yourself how important your relationship is with your great great grandparents is. That’s right, they’re strangers you don’t know or care about. And that’s why we’re in this mess.
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. >
  
  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 >
  
  That’s cute. We can’t engineer against this especially not on a budget. >
  
  $52B?!  Just the tip of the ice-berg. >
  
  Or you could stop building in a floodplain and restore the wetlands and sandbars that used to prevent this from happening... >
  
  You mean the $104b plan to save New York >
  
  That's the down payment on the 208b plan. >
  
  Let's pretend that the sea won't continue to rise. Ask Venice how their plan is going.  They use a series of 5 gallon buckets and put two planks up. That way people can have two directions of travel. The shops have to fend for themselves with all the water damage.  This has been going on for years and years. >
  
  On the flip side, ask the Dutch. >
  
  The Dutch have mostly stopped building seawalls and are instead restoring the natural barriers that would prevent this like wetlands and sandbars. >
  
  As a Dutch person... what? 
  We just threw 2 billion euros at raising and strengthening the Afsluitdijk and installin some insanely huge pumps to make sure we can get rid of water from the IJsselmeer even in high-sealevel conditions. That's on top of the 1.2 billion were spending on the Delta Program every year to make sure we're beating climate change. 
  There are no sea-side wetlands to prevent flooding in the Netherlands (though were definitely doing that for our rivers. There are large sections of coast that have dunes, but that's not new, that's how they've always been. We DO do a lot of shoreline suppletion, which maintains the beaches and dunes, but that's not really a solution for many places. >
  
  Many of the families in Hamilton Beach have lived here for several generations and don’t have plans to leave.
  I could not afford to buy a home in the town where I grew up, so I bought a home in a location I could afford. I don't have a college degree but I was smart enough to buy in an area that's not in a flood plain. I don't have oceanfront property and I believe these people have been counting the generosity of other taxpayers (cleverly disguised as the government) to insure that they can continue to live there.  They may have no choice and all the money spent over the decades will have been wasted.  Money that could have gone to combat climate change. >
  
  NYS spends tons of money on combating climate change. This is just a mitigation program. >
  
  Anyone seen an estimate of the cost to relocate the people and businesses affected? Also abandonment without some kind of orderly cleanup ahead of the surge would need to be included in the relocation costs. Whether you clean up the abandoned areas before they are flooded or deal with the pollution and mess afterwards there will be a high cost involved. >
  
  Just one more huge dike in NYC >
  
  Is this not just an attempt to put off answering the question of "Where do these millions move to"? >
  
  Sea levels have risen 12 inches in the past 100 years and are expected to do the same in the next 30-80 years (depending on who you read).
  So, regardless of how you feel about climate change, this is a needed step for future Americans.
  It isn’t ‘throwing money away’. Every engineering project gives us an opportunity to learn and improve on future projects. As we’ve seen with inflation, money spent today will be WAY more affordable then attempting to do it 30 years from now. >
  
  If you consider it a $52 billion dollar lesson in the sunk cost fallacy, then yes it will certainly give us an opportunity to learn. You can't stop the ocean. People will need to be relocated away from low lying coastal areas. >
  
  "sunk cost" -- good one! >
  
  ehhhh let em sink we dont really need new york city ... >
  
  Yeah you know it’s only the financial capital of the world and one of the few places in the country that can claim to have any real discernible culture. >
  
  I bet the plan involves the emission of tons of green house gases. >
  
  It's such a complex coast.  It seems too expensive to do anything but abandon it.  The best law would be to require realtors to disclose rising sea level and flooding as an accelerating hazard in order to deter resources from being unwisely applied there. >
  
  That same money should be spent relocating these folks. We’re not going to win a battle against the ocean. I get that nobody wants to accept that the world has changed and that it’s our own fault. However, the longer we live in denial, the harder it’s going to be to adapt to a warmer world with less stable weather patterns and higher sea levels. >
  
  
  We’re not going to win a battle against the ocean
  
  laughs in Dutch