According to the American Psychological Association, chronic stress is linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide. And more than 75 percent of all physician office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints.
In most cases, seawall design includes a curved embankment facing the water, so the energy from the waves of the ocean are directed back out to sea. Building a seawall is an expensive undertaking, with cost estimates ranging from around four-thousand to seven-thousand dollars per meter.
Trump estimates that the wall can be built for a figure ranging from $8 billion to $12 billion, and his first budget requests up to $2.6 billion in fiscal 2018 toward planning, designing and building it. Congressional Republicans said they expect it would cost from $12 billion to $15 billion, based on what it cost to build existing border fencing.