Adaptation, including sea defences, desalination plants, drought-resistant crops, will cost a lot of money.

适应气候变化，包括海防、海水淡化、抗旱作物，将花费大量资金。

Yet the system that created many of those sea defences, and encouraged people to keep living in flood-prone areas, is being abandoned.

尽管之前政府修建了许多海防工事并鼓励人们住在洪水风险区的，目前这一计划正面临着搁浅的命运。