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"Boston, Massachusetts, a city with perhaps more climate scientists per capita than any other on the planet."
That's what David Abel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker, has to say about his latest documentary, Inundation District, which focuses on Boston's Seaport District, a new waterfront development that's designed to take advantage of the city's old landfill and bring in billions of dollars in investment and tax revenue.
But Abel, who's been reporting on climate change issues for the Boston Globe for more than 25 years, says the city ignored warnings about how vulnerable the area was to flooding when planning the district.
"The history of the Seaport and the decision to build a new urban district at sea level on landfill and hard on the coast was based on the billions of dollars we spent cleaning up Boston Harbor," Abel tells the Globe.
"But once it was cleaned up, Boston had this valuable waterfront property and city officials started thinking they should do something with it and bring in some tax revenue.
The city and state spent billions of dollars creating this infrastructure to enable this new urban district.
Unlike other places that are vulnerable, the City of Boston ignored the threats and well after they understood the threats, they decided to proceed with no protections."
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