Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.
Grist
OCTOBER 9, 2019
When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon. The event would likely incur tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage and could take a year and a half to repair. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.
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