THE SILVER LINING TO CLIMATE ADAPTATION -- Part 15

The High Cost of Resiliency Efforts and the Hope that 

Lies in Wise Government Planning and Spending

Minicozzi said coastal cities, such as Charleston, S.C., will have to work to save their historic cores, which not only generate the most tax revenue but also have a huge value in heritage and culture. 

“Charleston’s barrier islands will be under water. I think they know they cannot save them,” he said. 

But they may be able to design a lock or some system in the harbor to keep water out of the peninsula that the old town sits on.

If old town went under water, it would be a tremendous loss of not just tax value, but architectural and cultural history. 

There are buildings older than the United States there.” “We’ve known about this for 20 to 30 years,” he said.

“If you go to the doctor and your blood pressure is off the charts, you’re not going to say ‘doc, that’s just your opinion, I’m going to ignore this.’ 

But we do this with the science of climate change.