• @phoneymouse
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    419 hours ago

    If these people want to pay for their own sea walls to protect their homes, fine; but taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing the ultra rich to protect their properties. Buying ocean front property in this day and age is a big risk.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      416 hours ago

      The problem us that private seawalls have the effect of destroying public beaches, which is why California restricts them.

      • @phoneymouse
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        214 hours ago

        I see, there are different ways to do them. In some ways, the public will need to fund some seawall construction to protect roads and reduce erosion overall. Highway 1 in CA is a good example. But, there are also plenty of examples of people who built homes dangerously close to the ocean and when a big storm rolls in, they get wrecked.