The Greater Philadelphia Area
“This is a wake-up call.
On our current path, Pennsylvania will soon be 5.9° F hotter and parts of our coast will be submerged in 2.1 feet of water, according to Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s climate report.
We can reduce the impacts of climate change, but we must act now.” — Governor Tom Wolf
A study entitled Sea level rise and coastal flooding threaten affordable housing highlights the risk to Atlantic City.
In Atlantic City 52% of affordable housing will become uninhabitable due to coastal flooding by 2050.
“The point here is that two neighbors can suffer from the same flood, one living in affordable housing and one in a home they own, and experience a very different outcome,” says Benjamin Strauss, a co-author of the report and CEO and chief scientist at Climate Central. “Many more people in the general population will be affected by sea level rise than the affordable housing population. But the affordable population group is the one likely to hurt the most, who can’t afford to find a remedy on their own, and tend to not have the voice needed to change the allocation of public resources.”
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A path runs through West Chester, Pennsylvania that was originally used my the Minquas in their conquest of the Lenni-Lenape (aka Delaware) Indians. The trail sign can be found at the intersection of Route 322, Route 100 and Route 202.
“Minquas” meaning “treacherous” was the Lenni-Lenape name for the Susquehannock, their traditional enemy.