The town of Avon, a small town along the coast on the Outer Banks, is having trouble with its major road washing away. Dare County, where Avon is located, wants to raise property taxes by 50% to keep the ocean from destroying the town. The residents of Avon are upset.
This type of issue will become more and more prevalent as climate change accelerates. Who should pay when rivers rise, when the Louisiana wetlands disappear, when Miami floods? When people live in danger zones, we might say it’s their fault. In a way it is, but as the temperature goes up, more and more of us will be living in danger zones.
Already we are seeing the effects of increasingly stronger hurricanes, more forest fires, more flooding. Climate change is here, and it will only get worse. And we just lost four years of doing anything about it, and we still have one of the two major parties that regards it as a hoax.
When one decides to put themselves in harms way they are responsible for there actions. These towns and cities need to find a way to either move inland or pay to build sea walls. There is a price to pay for that water view living. Not you or I who chose to stay put in a more safer place. Yes we put up with cold and snow, but we pay for the costs to remove snow. No one else. Enough said.
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