President Donald Trump talked a great deal during his 2016 campaign about how he would fund massive new civic infrastructure projects if elected. Unfortunately, very few of those campaign promises have come to fruition. Other countries, however, are funding these types of projects, and some of them are designed to mitigate the impact of climate change. Many of the world’s largest cities are located on the ocean—Tokyo, New York City, Seoul, Osaka, Manila, Mumbai, Jakarta, to mention just a…

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