Climate change harsh on Atlantic barrier islands

[Nihil]

1. About time people moved off them and let the islands do the job they've done for millions of years.

Suzy Goldhirsch started off so well with clarity & accuracy ...

> We are living on a sandbar in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

... but then went down into total fuckwittery ...

> nature can no longer be left to take its course even as sea level rises.
> “Let nature take its course — I don’t think that’s good planning” she said.

... and, unfortunately, such stupidity is infectious ...

> Subsidies, emergency relief and ad hoc projects on the East and Gulf Coasts
> have encouraged development in the face of such danger


The voices of sanity have a major uphill struggle ahead ...

> it is hard to win support for safety measures that would require communities
> to “forgo revenue-generating potential by limiting development.”

... but the answer is blindingly obvious really:a straight blanket statement that the
government will not bail out anyone who lives in such a region.

Let them stick their "revenue-generating potential" right up their Hamptons ...