The April 4 issue of the Boston Globe Magazine has an article about the city's preparations for climate change: How Boston is — and should be — preparing for rising seas. The article identifies five things Boston is doing and five things Boston should be doing.
Five things Boston is doing now:
- Fostering public-private coordination
- Building with higher sea levels in mind
- Ensuring that the city's emergency services function without grid power
- Requiring developers to plan for sea-level rise
- Flood-proofing microgrids.
Five things Boston should be doing:
- Study a storm surge barrier
- Use its political and economic power to lead the state and the private sector
- Retrofit homes for flood preparedness
- Coordinate with neighboring towns and area universities
- Move vulnerable infrastructure and facilities inland
- Eric Smalley
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