Just in case you were counting on dying before you had to deal with global warming take a wee look at what’s going on along the British coast – a-l-r-e-a-d-y.
The area that will experience the greatest difficulties and the greatest distress is bound to be the east coast. Between the two chalk promontories of Flamborough Head in the East Riding of Yorkshire and the North Foreland in Kent, the face that England presents to the sea is weak, often low, muddy and vulnerable. It is here, both in the lowlands protected by dune systems and in the high ground defended only by crumbling cliffs made of glacial boulder clay, that a taste of the future is to be found. The east coast is what the future looks like, and it is an unsettling place. Little is really known: projected erosion on the north Norfolk coast has in places been five times what government studies thought it would be only 10 years ago; in other places, beaches have been replenished more than expected.
Very good article, covering many aspects of the problem: love of the land; who gets help and who doesn’t; how much time money might buy… Serious stuff.