Climate Change, Urbanization Study: Boston’s subway system faces severe flood threat

Perry World House Visiting Scholar Jesse M. Keenan comments on how climate change is threatening Boston public transit in AP News. 

The Boston area’s subway system faces a severe threat from rising seas over the next 50 years that could cause flooding and cut critical links around the city, according to a new study...

“It’s not a pretty picture,” said Jesse Keenan, a Tulane professor who studies the intersection of climate change and infrastructure and co-authored the research...

Failing to address the issue could have a negative impact on the economy of the city.

“If you do not do this, you’re going to lose businesses and jobs, you’re going to lose tenants, you’re going to lose taxpayers, you’re going to lose economic activity. People need to get to work,” Keenan said.

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