When climate change is not a raging river or wildfire

Popular seaside neighborhoods such as Stinson Beach face slow extinction

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The destruction of Stinson Beach, an exclusive seaside town just north of San Francisco, won’t happen overnight and likely won’t threaten any lives. That makes it almost impossible to stop.

For every Texas flood incident or California wildfire that erupts, tearing lives and homes apart and causing millions in insurance and property losses, there are scores of built-up areas in the U.S. that are doomed to be swallowed by the sea or washed away in storms someday. We know where they are and how to fix them, but there is no money available.