Will we lose all our beaches underwater as sea levels rise? Won’t it take years for new beaches to form?
In: Earth Science
I’m not sure I buy the “sand will be redeposited” theories.
What happens on all of the Southern California beaches? There are houses there. The ocean rises two feet and they are either gone or protected by a sea wall.
If the houses go away, the land is usually pretty flat. You’re not going to get a bunch of people to give up their houses so the beach in the middle can have a place to restore.
If you put up a a sea wall, there’s no beach.
That’s just SoCal but there are lots of places with similar geography.
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