New York Unprepared for Flooding, Sea Level Rise

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - September 24, 2012

City Environmental Justice Alliance told the New York Times. “We’re behind in consciousness-building and disaster planning.”

Officials in New York say that it will take time to adapt a city of eight million people to climate change, and they also note that the last time a hurricane directly hit New York was more than a century ago.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)