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ToxicAdamm t1_j1icue7 wrote

Sea levels have risen 12 inches in the past 100 years and are expected to do the same in the next 30-80 years (depending on who you read).

So, regardless of how you feel about climate change, this is a needed step for future Americans.

It isn’t ‘throwing money away’. Every engineering project gives us an opportunity to learn and improve on future projects. As we’ve seen with inflation, money spent today will be WAY more affordable then attempting to do it 30 years from now.

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indica_please t1_j1ih4n0 wrote

If you consider it a $52 billion dollar lesson in the sunk cost fallacy, then yes it will certainly give us an opportunity to learn. You can't stop the ocean. People will need to be relocated away from low lying coastal areas.

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