New York can be protected from the ocean by a giant wall: why is it necessary
With the help of the wall, they want to protect New York from floods that can become more frequent due to global warming. Construction can take 25 years and cost $ 119 billion. The project has already caused controversy, as the publication writes. Fox News.
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The construction of the 9,5-kilometer wall is a project of the US Army. Thus, military engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers offer to protect New York from possible floods associated with global warming. Its construction can cost $ 119 billion and take up to 25 years.
The wall will consist of several interconnected gates. They will be united by artificial islands with a length of about 9,6 km in the Lower New York Bay - between Sandy Hook and the Rockaway Peninsula.
The project was called "Alternative 2". This is the largest and most expensive of several hypothetical concepts for protecting New York from future storms.
The corps plans to release its final report and recommendations tentatively in 2022. After that, the report will be reviewed by the US Congress.
The authorities' response
President of America Donald Trump has already criticized such an idea. He called it "stupid, expensive and damaging ecology." Although the reaction of the US president is predictable, given his attitude to climate change, many local politicians are also critical of the plan.
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In turn, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote in response to Trump: “We lost 44 of our inhabitants during Hurricane Sandy. You must remember this, you lived here at that time. Your denial of climate change is not just dangerous for those you have vowed to protect. It is deadly. ”
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