Elitism and Global Warming

The recent Scientific American magazine and several other stories have studied the eventual sea level rise, it's effect on low lying coastal regions, possible mitigation, but little on the elitist nature of the problem.  Here's what is going to happen:  Warming will continue to melt glaciers, poles, and ice caps with the water from that melting making it's way into the ocean which will rise relative to the land masses.  People in the United States love building on the coast.  Rich people love building on the coast.  The coast is going away when the oceans rise.  We can either spend trillions of dollars we don't have protecting the coast or let the ocean have it's way.  We will spend the money.  Because the rich people living on the coast will spend some of that wealth buying the decision makers.  The taxes that come from us all will pay to protect those most able to protect themselves, incurring more debt to pass on to future generations.  Hopefully, I will be gone before the politicians start defending the rich against the ocean.  Until the masses take their vote seriously and wrest control of the legislature from the elite, we will be under the thumb of the plutocracy.