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		okareaman on July 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who will pay to protect tech giants from rising se... I live near Facebook and Google. It's doesn't seem to me much of a task to build dikes. Those trillion dollar companies can pay for it themselves Costs of sea dikes – regressions and uncertainty estimates (2017) https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/17/765/2017/nhess-17-7...

nomoreplease on July 31, 2021 [–]

According to the article, the ones they built don’t meet federal safety standards. This is probably why it seems easy.

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