From the piece: "Alarming media stories that twist the facts about rising sea levels are dangerous because they scare people unnecessarily and push policymakers

From the piece: "Alarming media stories that twist the facts about rising sea levels are dangerous because they scare people unnecessarily and push policymakers toward excessively expensive measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The real solution is to lift the world’s poorest out of poverty and protect them with simple infrastructure." Part of me is hopeful that this might be right. And another part of me is worried that this might be a overly optimistic view to make us feel better. I think I am leaning towards the latter when the proposed solution is simply "life the world's poorest out of poverty." Feels like "we" have wanted to do that for a long time for many reasons.