19 October, 2018

Boston’s bill for climate change is coming due

Clearly the sight of a dumpster floating down the street in the Fort Point district last January made a lot of Bostonians all too aware that the realities of climate change have become part of their world.
A man walks through a flooded sidewalk off Congress
Street, where water was flowing over from Fort
 Point Channel in the Seaport District on March 2.
The fact is climate change is already here,” Mayor Marty Walsh told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce this week where he introduced his plan for Resilient Boston Harbor to deal with the city’s 47-mile coastline and the diverse neighborhoods that line it.

“This is about prevention,” he told reporters at an earlier briefing. “We have a lot of different pieces all over the place. This brings it all together.”


Read the Editorial from The Boston Globe - “Boston’s bill for climate change is coming due.”

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