This is a state problem. Let them handle it.
“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared. We must protect the great NY metropolis from rising oceans, said the Washington Post. This storm should “compel all elected leaders to take immediate action” on climate change, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pronounced.”
I guess we can nuke China off the map, as they are increasing greenhouse gases at least 10 times faster than we could ever hope to cut them.
Perhaps that’s Mr. Cuomo is getting at?
September 11, 2001 did not change East Coast voter preferences, nor did disastrous Storm Sandy. Squatting on their haunches, waiting. They are too stupid to deserve any help. They should try helping themselves. Don’t New Yorkers think they’re the real geniuses behind America’s success? Time for them to prove it at home.
Good article and writing.
They are narrowing the Hudson on the Jersey side too. Hoboken is partly below sea level and paid the price.
Like the Sandy Hook shooting, we just wait for a redux.
Indeed, the very notion of packing more and more people into “sustainable, energy-efficient” coastal cities in the NY-NJ area is itself madness on steroids.
I've been saying this for fifteen years. There isn't a corporate jurisdiction of which I am aware that does its planning on an actuarial basis. Instead, they discount and regulate to death alternative land uses that can be sustained at lower risk.
In that regard modern building codes, with their massive requirements supposedly for every contingency are an enemy of capital preservation. If we are to build in high hazard areas, at least make those structures expendable or even deliberately temporary.