Sea Walls as Climate Redlining

Cities are funding coastal barriers to shield historic, high‑value districts while leaving low‑income, often minority neighborhoods outside the wall. At the same time, they keep approving massive housing tracts on wetlands and floodplains, baking future losses into the system. Adaptation ends up reallocating risk rather than reducing it. — It reframes climate adaptation as a distributional choice that can entrench inequality unless tied to land‑use and insurance reform.