Sea level rise is creeping into coastal cities. Saving them won’t be cheap.
R.J. Lehmann, editor in chief of the conservative think tank R Street, said we’ll have to pick our battles by focusing on what’s worth protecting. “You look to a city like Atlantic City, which is on a barrier island and is highly vulnerable to floods” and which by some accounts is a failed city economically, he said. “Will we go to extraordinary lengths to save a city like Atlantic City? I think the answer is no.”
“We’re not in the habit of making those bloodless decisions on the cost and benefit of saving infrastructure,” he said. “We’re going to have to.”
