Thursday, July 16, 2020

A potential Green Tort

Historic SF building to be lifted 10 feet due to sea level rise

Historic Building 12 at Pier 70 is being lift 10 feet for sea level rise protection. Building 12 will be at the same level as the new roads pictured here.

One the damage side we can say with about 80% probability this if this was on the water front edge, then it need be raised due to global warming.  But on the liability side, was this building constructed to accommodate automobiles? Did it require parking. The plaintiff needs to demonstrate an expectation of pre-industrial climes via their own transactions.

If the building was purchased to be reused as a walk in museum accessible to low energy transit, then that may be a future claim as the new owners bought both Green liability and Green damages due.  The formula seems simple, but Tort is not on the Greenie overton windows, because it works, it really assigns the cost. The last thing any of the New or Old Greenies every wanted was to assign global warming costs as that might hurt their pals.  Always, one hundred percent, every Greenie proposal all start with the exceptions to global warming tax, their pals.


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