Annie Hackett, 20, looks out at the water less than 20 metres from the Erckenbrack Park playground in which she’s standing. She lives in Foster City, Calif., a planned suburb of about 30,000 people built along a chain of canals and waterways southeast of San Francisco.
Hackett believes in climate science and has heard about how profoundly rising sea levels will affect the San Francisco Bay area. And more often than she cares to admit, she imagines the waves lapping hungrily at her front porch.
“My house is feet from the water,” Hackett says. “So if the water rises it would probably flood my street.”
But according to a recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, it’s not “if the water rises,” it’s when. And the people at
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