This piece from the UW-Madison Water Sustainability and Climate Project offers several tenets of “long term thinking,” an intentional inquiry into what sorts of futures are possible in a watershed over a period of several decades or more.
According to state officials, Coastal Virginia is home to the second largest U.S. population at risk from climate change (second only to the people of New Orleans). Because of the added problem of land subsidence, sea levels along the Virginia coast are rising faster than the global average, with some estimates projecting a relative sea level rise of two to five feet within 100 years.