Paging Canute: In Spite Of Scientists' Warnings, Coastal Towns Dump Money Into Beach Rebuilding

[hunter]

1. We're going to need a good political mechanism for abandoning coastal infrastructure.

With a free market we end up with impoverished people moving in as property loses value as it gets flooded out.

In our existing plutocracy we throw a lot of public money into "armoring the coasts" and simply delay the problem.

Ideally we'd be relocating people (buying them out?) and removing and recycling infrastructure in a rational democratic manner before property is eaten by the ocean.

Otherwise we end up with chaos -- with the oceans drowning people, ripping apart infrastructure, grinding up everything and turning it into pollution

Or we suffer authoritarian relocations -- "Here's a bus ticket and the keys to your new inland condominium, citizen. We will be removing this building in three weeks."