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Florida town sees the future:
A South Florida town’s pioneering plan to fund retreat from sea rise
Anyone that doubts climate change should consider that this is reality and wake up from their doubts.
“I don’t look out the windows anymore because I’m afraid I’ll see flooding,”
"Her only choice, she said, is to sell the home she’s lived in for 53 years, the one she had planned to die in."
"her town, Surfside, is pioneering what appears to be a first of its kind solution for residents in the decades to come — a fund for potential buyouts."
"“This is my life I am planning. You have got to tell me the truth,” she insisted."
"She said staff told her that even if she raised her sea wall 2 extra feet, she would only buy herself around seven years before the floodwaters started licking at her door."
“Our risk is undeniable. The modelers get it. The mortgage institutions get it. Insurance gets it.”
A South Florida town’s pioneering plan to fund retreat from sea rise
Anyone that doubts climate change should consider that this is reality and wake up from their doubts.