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Main Paineframe posted:Not that sea level rise isn't a problem, but humanity has a lot of experience in holding back the sea from its efforts to take land that should by all rights be doomed by sea level. Florida is likely a lost cause, but given the financial interests tied up in NYC, it's basically certain it'll be given the infrastructure needed to cope with sea level rise. It's expensive, sure, but NYC is rich as hell and the financial center of the US. There is no feasible infrastructure that can save New York City from future devastating storm surges. You're probably imagining NYC as a bunch of skyscrapers, and that's definitely a part of it, but the majority of New York is low-lying residential areas. Every 1/8 inch of sea level rise makes Hurricane Sandy level events more and more likely in the future, and one of those was enough to cost the city $19 billion. We can barely afford to repair the subway after Sandy, and we're still working on repairing the damages - the train I take to work everyday is about to get shut down for more than a year to fix a storm-damaged tunnel. That shutdown is going to cause a massive amount of economic pain to the city and gently caress over hundreds of thousands of commuters, and its just one train among a dozen. If five shut down for a year? Fughedddaboutit. Even if they manage to put a sea wall, or hell, a dome over the Financial District, that's just going to push the water into low-lying parts of the outer boroughs. Good luck doing fancy deals in those skyscrapers when none of the trains work to send the janitors in from Queens to clean the toilets.
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