Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away

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9. The point of the article is that the Miami (area) is more vulnerable than most areas

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A study by the Florida Department of Transportation concluded that over the next 35 years, rising sea levels will increasingly flood and damage smaller local roads in the Miami area.

The national climate report found that although rapidly melting Arctic ice is threatening the entire American coastline, Miami is exceptionally vulnerable because of its unique geology. The city is built on top of porous limestone, which is already allowing the rising seas to soak into the city’s foundation, bubble up through pipes and drains, encroach on fresh water supplies and saturate infrastructure. County governments estimate that the damages could rise to billions or even trillions of dollars."

So I am trying to figure out why you have a problem with this? Areas like Miami Beach and Venice, Italy are going to be the first cities to see catastrophic damage in the next 30 years. Are you seriously saying they should just ignore this and not write an article?

Was there some flooding in the area 50 years ago? If you say so I believe you but the point is that it's getting more and more common and it's on the edge of being a nuisance to becoming billions in property damage.