Los Angeles Must Pay Billions to Adapt—or Slip Into the Sea

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Beach replenishment is conducted here on the east coast. Large ships offshore pump sand in large pipes to the beaches. The process works well but is very expensive.

Extremely ruinous to the ocean ground and the life habitats it forms.


Also, what almost everybody does not know: sand is running out. The sand needed to build concrete with. Desert sand is unusable, its grains have no compatible geometry. The immense hunger for concrete to build ever more cities, skyscrapers and sealed infrastrructure with, has led to a race at sea for "harvesting" suitable sand from the seabed. What is left behind in the process, is a dead area. And already years ago I saw documentary on it showing that they run out of sand. Construction sand is one of the most asked-for commodity on the global trade market now.


We are too many.