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As the Sea Rises, Will Resiliency—Rather Than Retreat—Be Enough to Save Waterfront NYC?

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  • TOM
    Posted April 27, 2019 at 4:51 pm

    Thanks for the projections. In 2100 I’ll have harbor-front property. My great grand-children will be delighted.

  • Peter Varley
    Posted August 24, 2020 at 7:14 am

    It seems like the year 2020 is only an appetizer for more global events to occur. The article says that even reducing green-house gases is unlikely at this stage to stop cities from being largely compromised by global warming. I am American, 55 years old, and I live in Shenzhen, China. Nearby Guangzhou is considered highly vulnerable to early-stage rise of sea levels. It is good that mayors like Bloomberg and Blasio are putting some thought and resources into it. Today I was thinking of the migration of people from New York to other parts of the country. The Netherlands is taking it the most seriously. But from the article, I take away that the people now in charge do not enough for the people who are now being born or who are millennial youth and such. More so, from the year of 2020, where we have slowed down carbon emissions by being acted upon by an unseen force, we still seem to crave a Starbucks paper cup coffee go down and fire up our desire for more and more development. All anybody ever talks about is dealing with the economic reality of feeding oneself or their children. I hope that people can do something through the democratic process. And not bicker and name call and participate in partisan identity politics. These are my concerns and my voice. I used to run an event called Conversation Cafe in the U.K., and it was a way to exercise democracy and make friends at the same time by talking. We do not come together as a species, enough in my opinion, to talk in a heartfelt way. Bob Dylan famously said, The Hour is Getting Late. That is not prophetic. It has happened in 2020.

  • Kenneth F Fraser
    Posted August 8, 2021 at 12:22 pm

    Good Lord if we still have the time and resources why are we not acting now and right now this second.
    I have learned we may face complete social collapse within the next two decades if we do not take this thing head-on.

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