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Texas dilemma an example of cost of climate change
Critics say $43b to be spent on engineering project could have gone on mitigation efforts
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They call it the "Ike Dike" - named after Hurricane Ike that laid waste to the Texas coast in 2008, killing 74 people in the state and more in Haiti, and causing over US$30 billion in damage.
One could just as well call it the cost of climate change.