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U.S. coastal areas will require significant spending to ride out future storms and rising sea levels — not in decades, but now and in the very near future.

June 23rd, 2019

“……By 2040, simply providing basic storm-surge protection in the form of sea walls for all coastal cities with more than 25,000 residents will require at least $42 billion, according to new estimates from the Center for Climate Integrity, an environmental advocacy group. Expanding the list to include communities smaller than 25,000 people would increase that cost to more than $400 billion. …….”

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