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Re:Louisiana’s Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Dis... by delinka on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:40AM (#14164976)
If beach erosion were the problem, maintaining barrier islands makes sense. But when the ocean levels are rising and simply crawling up the beach, putting everything underwater?

Sure, we could probably engineer building up the coastline with higher land to maintain the current coastline, but at what expense? At what point do we just decide that the coastline is moving inland and we should just follow suit?

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Re:Louisiana’s Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Dis... by thesmallestcat on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:44AM (#14165015)
Erosion is the difference between being able to live in a home on stilts, and having the land beneath collapse into the ocean. There is land below sea level and it experiences erosion too. Rising sea levels accelerate erosion, which clearly doesn't make it less of an issue.
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