On: Boston’s Seaport District may be a testing ground for climate change adaptation

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Is that true though? I think it's at lest an open question as to what's cheaper - mitigation or avoidance.

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Since predicting the future is hard, the cautious approach of not fucking with complex systems we don't understand fully until the effects are so bad that we need to expend significant effort to mitigate them seems best to me.