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Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by XorNot on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @11:59AM (#17869239)
The other side of this is to adopt coastal retreat policies as well though. Its not enough to drive insurance up, you need to prevent people moving in anyway because it's cheap land because of that.
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Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by codesforhugs on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @02:33PM (#17870502)
SciAm recently had a good article about these policies and the challenges they face:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surrendering-to-r...

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Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by rhacker on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:47PM (#17869692)
Interesting - you had your fun at the ocean front. Now if you want money for the lost property, you have to buy three streets back?

That's not a bad idea.

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