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		XorNot on Aug 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water ... 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.

codesforhugs on Aug 29, 2018 | [–]

SciAm recently had a good article about these policies and the challenges they face:

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

rhacker on Aug 29, 2018 | [–]

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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