> I mean, how much do you figure flooding New York permanently would cost? I honestly don't know the answer; I never said or implied that I did: I just noted t

> I mean, how much do you figure flooding New York permanently would cost? I honestly don't know the answer; I never said or implied that I did: I just noted the questions we have to answer to make a rational — rather than an emotional — decision. > Hurricane Sandy cost billions of dollars. True, but an awful lot of that was repair, wasn't it? If you abandon something, you don't need to spend money fixing it first. There would certainly be huge costs in losing New York City, but there would be some benefits too. And, again, taking the measures needed to not-lose-New-York isn't free: there are costs associated with that course of action. It truly boggles my mind that so many folks here think that, 'something must be done; this is something; this must be done!' is valid when applied to climate change, when we would all recognise it as invalid in a software-development context.