Just finished reading about one of my pet peeves, people who complain about beach or coastal erosion, or just about any other natural change to the surf or coastline.
Beaches and coastlines never stop changing, the ones that change slowly beyond a human lifetime are the rocky exceptions. As hard as it may be, if you buy a house too close to the sandy shoreline it's going to change one way or the other. If you are lucky the beach will get wider, maybe then they will complain about the long walk, if you are not lucky then before long the waves will be lapping at your front door or your front porch will be falling into the sea. It's called geology.
It's not global warming, shipping traffic, abalone thieves or dogs crapping on the beach, it's just mother nature at work as usual. Nothing we do with carbon emissions, solar power, hydrogen trucks, banning shipping, saving the whales or blocking wind farms will change the fact it will change. In the vast majority of cases it is what it is, it'll change someway or another!
It's analogous to people who buy next door to an airport then spend the rest of their residency complaining about the aircraft noise to councils and politicians.
Why the feck should the rest of society be taxed million$ or billion$ for remedial action just because somebody got a cheap deal on a seafront property without thinking it through! >
Beaches and coastlines never stop changing, the ones that change slowly beyond a human lifetime are the rocky exceptions. As hard as it may be, if you buy a house too close to the sandy shoreline it's going to change one way or the other. If you are lucky the beach will get wider, maybe then they will complain about the long walk, if you are not lucky then before long the waves will be lapping at your front door or your front porch will be falling into the sea. It's called geology.
It's not global warming, shipping traffic, abalone thieves or dogs crapping on the beach, it's just mother nature at work as usual. Nothing we do with carbon emissions, solar power, hydrogen trucks, banning shipping, saving the whales or blocking wind farms will change the fact it will change. In the vast majority of cases it is what it is, it'll change someway or another!
It's analogous to people who buy next door to an airport then spend the rest of their residency complaining about the aircraft noise to councils and politicians.
Why the feck should the rest of society be taxed million$ or billion$ for remedial action just because somebody got a cheap deal on a seafront property without thinking it through! >
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"