Will we lose all our beaches underwater as sea levels rise? Won’t it take years for new beaches to form?
In: Earth Science
Your question implies that beaches as recreation are important to you.
In our lifetime “fun” beaches will remain with periodic issues of erosion, of more or less severity.
Our great-great-grandchildren will have an entirely different relationship with beach holidays.
So, yes, in the intermediate term [100 years], we are losing the typically understood holiday beach venues.
Yes, it will take millenia to re-draw the coast and establish beaches. This assumes we take explicit action to slow climate change.
If we don’t take action [and maybe if we do…the hour is late], we’re looking at inexorable Polar melt with a concomitant sea-level rise.
In this case, the loss of beach holidays is the smallest of our concerns.
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