[_3u10]

Government can’t even let private sector build houses for 1 year demand. I don’t forsee them being able to manage anything on 100 year timescales.

Just look at the climate change stupidity, any city in the world could build a 6 foot sea wall and give the middle finger to climate change in a year with minimal cost but instead we have all manner of stupid at an international level.

I used to live in a city that was in a rainforest and would run out of water like clockwork during the two months of the year it wasn’t bucketing down rain. It even had mountains with snowpack as a backup but they could never figure out how to build a dam an extra 6 feet higher so we wouldn’t run out of water. We had enough money to buy people heroin but couldn’t figure out how to not run out of water. There was never a heroin shortage, always plenty of that, they’d just buy more but if you wanted to water your lawn, get rekt bud, we don’t have any water.

To be fair regarding the heroin, it did cost about $500,000 per person to obtain enough heroin.

[nradov]

See walls don't work for every city in the world. Miami, for example, sits on a porous karst substrate so building a sea wall wouldn't do much to prevent flooding.