LAT: Property value worries sink Santa Barbara [global warming] art project

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-blueline26aug26,1,5947765.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

Two of the city's great preoccupations -- progressive politics and sky-high real estate values -- have collided over the last couple of months, yielding high drama over an art project that was to denote land imperiled by global warming with blue waves painted on downtown intersections.

"The community conversation turned into a frenzy," said Mayor Marty Blum, one of the idea's supporters. "I don't think I've ever seen anything like it."

Last week, the activist behind the city-backed wave project withdrew his plan, abandoning for now the idea of vividly charting just what would happen in Santa Barbara if Greenland's ice sheets turn to slush. Opponents, who believed that the aptly named "lightblueline" project would sink property values on the wrong side of the line, claimed victory.

"If you're below the line, there's a stigma," said Jerry Beaver, a real estate developer who owns a warehouse and other property that would be swamped if, as lightblueline predicts, the oceans rise 23 feet over the course of time.

translated "if you ignore it, then it doesn't exist"

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1. hey, real estate developers, if you're developing on ANY coastline at sea level or barely above,

you're risking your clients' homes. But you know that. You just want to build, get your money and run as you profit from wrecking our coastlines, wildlife habitat and aquatic ocean dwellers' nurseries.

:puke:

[XemaSab]

2. All the low-lying areas

are already built up. :P

[fed-up]

3. what a great idea-lightblueline-showing people what will be flooded w/global warming k/b/r nt

[Nihil]

4. FFS?! Politics and money trump reality ...

> Opponents, who believed that the aptly named "lightblueline" project
> would sink property values on the wrong side of the line, claimed victory.

Hurrah! Victory for short-sighted, pig-ignorant money-grubbers!
The American Way of Life has been saved!

> "If you're below the line, there's a stigma," said Jerry Beaver,
> a real estate developer who owns a warehouse and other property
> that would be swamped if, as lightblueline predicts, the oceans
> rise 23 feet over the course of time.

A "stigma"? That's a new use for the word ... I didn't realise it
had anything to do with flooding ... "In other news, parts of Santa
Barbara were under 8 feet of stigma this morning ..."?

Hey Beaver? If you're below the line, there's a PROBLEM and by
using your money & influence to silence those with their eyes open,
you are being a CRIMINAL. All scum like you are doing is buying
yourself time to offload your property to suckers who you LIE to
in order to cash in your greedy gambling spree before the real world
comes knocking on your door.

:grr:

I was really impressed when I heard about this project ... I should
have known better than to think that the new shoots of sense would
survive the toxins of greed ...