From today’s Sun:
Another 7,000 kilometres of coastline in the Atlantic provinces, British Columbia and western Arctic are said to be “highly sensitive” to sea levels that scientists predict will rise between 35 centimetres and one metre by 2100.
The City of Richmond, on delta lands south of Vancouver, surrounded by dykes, is planning on a sea level rise of only 0.4 metres. Earlier this year, a surge breached the dykes of Delta, built for a 200-year flood. The cost of raising dykes to handle something like a metre rise could run into the hundreds of millions. What choice do they have?
And at what point will leadership become liable for negligence when, reasonably knowing that the consequences of climate change were inevitable, they chose to do deny the science, ignore the warnings, and to do nothing?
