Exactly why we are in this mess. Smug people like him saying well I’ve got mine so I’m good, you reap the consequences kids and grandkids. I guess he can laugh as his descendants curse his bones as the earth increasingly becomes unlivable. Least the lady has come to terms and respects the power of the Ocean. Nature does not need us in the least, but we will perish without it!
Not what he meant. He bought and paid for a home his children would inherit. They can sell move demo do what they want. I can see this I plan to do the same with my children. My home is in the middle of the island. My thoughts are maybe one day the island will not longer be accessible but maybe I won’t be here. That is a risk I assumed when I bought on the island.
It’s funny to me when people complain about giving relief to student loan borrowers, saying “it was their choice to go to school.” How is no one complaining about the billions being spent nationwide to save rich homeowners (not in all cases I know) from saving their home when THEY CHOSE TO LIVE BY WATER?!?!
Fact of the matter is these people chose near water, some may pick near rivers or streams, others on flat lands or on hills. Everyone is being impacted everywhere. Have some compassion.
@@alwaysup22 The simple fact is that they've been warning about specifically this for 40 years and this is exactly what they were talking about. So if your politics or ignorance lead you towards losing your home for building without sense, that is on you.
@Laur Wesol So you kids have to pay high interest. Welcome to the real World where everything's designed to keep you in debt. You knew the terms when you signed the loan, so who's fault is that really? And now taxpayers are supposed to bail you guys out too? Um.. that's not how it works~🤨
@Laur Wesol I don't mean to sound disrespectful but sounds like sighing on to a credit card I'm guilty of the same thing you really should have looked at the fin print.
If you drive a car to a fossil fuel protest, you are the problem. If you eat food, you are the problem If you charge your phone, you are the problem If you breathe, you are the problem, What are you doing to be less of a problem? Complaining about others doesn't count!
@Cartoon Raccoon ; I should have made it clear that I was born in 1953. When someone from my generation says things like, "let the kids figure it out," it puts another stain on the generation born after WWII. I feel entitled to call out selfish Boomers. 😉.
@@Kameshwari108 You sound very immature for being born in 1953. I was born in 77 and I completely agree with the original commentator. It's going to be like 'The Lorax' pretty soon. Selfish humans.
@truthforjustice4366 Nah. The Earth is perfectly fine...self healing. Humankind needs to change for the better. Time will tell what will change and what will disappear.
That's the thing though: how far inland should you consider safe. When water washes away houses in Arizona, will you say, 'shouldn't have pout houses there'?
I agree but I also think the cities and counties should reclassify the land to prevent homes from being built. Were I live many home insurers have stopped due to fires. Those that do insure are about 2X the cost as a few years ago. I would think flood insurance for costal location will do the same.
seems to me the government has a roll to play in public well fair~ to govern. but sensible governing should be directing relocation rather than burning a gigantic carbon footprint on such short lived solution which denys the inevitable and is actually contributing to the acceleration to climate change ~ ( like pouring fuel on a fire that takes down the shelter that keeps you out of the cold!)~a very expensive irony.
Maybe it isn’t the climate change; it’s the greedy and dumb hippies that is the problem. Native Indians never complained the ocean eroded their dwelling 🤣
I still remember my house number, 35 Seaview Dr, back in ‘61. That lady described it perfectly. We were on the cliffs and we had a yard and of course, a sea view. They did build houses on the cliffs in Pacifica back in the ‘60’s.
@@margo3367 I searched images and found many of them, credited to Almay, which show little to no housing on cliffs in the previous Linda Mar area. When they started building apts and houses on those cliffs, I have no idea as we moved in '64. I loved on Montezuma.
I understand this homeowners point that he didn't think the shore would erode in his lifetime.. but I cringed when he made that statement. Soundbites don't always communicate well but I cringed!
@Andy DeJoseph Agreed and they only use the excuse of climate change to enact laws that will enslave us, affecting how we can travel and soon what we can and cannot eat.
@Lies Tricks Short of recycling trash at your home which I do what in reality can the average Joe do to help save the environment in their everyday lives besides trying to sound uppity with their beliefs?
@Lies Tricks you know what puzzles me? Every plan to solve climate change is focused on destroying the west and forcing more and more industry to places like China that have no epa and are dumping more crap into the ground the water and the sky than everyone else. China is building more and more coal burning power plants as the west shutters theirs. All the solutions are going to make things much worse not only the climate but it will destroy the west's ability to sustain itself.
The US Government has been trying to control the weather since the 60's, when LBJ said "He who controls the weather controls the World!" and look where that's gotten us~
"Let the grandchildren worry about it," sums up the entire boomer generation. Also, I remember singing a song in Sunday school about not building your house on sand.... I know it was a metaphor for safe, but I took that quite literally. Ugh .. people are frustrating
Most are not primary homes, they're weekend retreat/vacation homes. If there is a mortgage/loan, the bank will demand/require flood insurance to cover the term/length of the loan...
You can start by sending a gift basket. Fixings for a charcuterie board, fresh fruit, and perhaps some artisanal white chocolate paired with a nice bottle of Rosé.
Blaming all Boomers is not an effective part of the solution. This young Boomer grew with up with parents that respected the Earth . I continue to live, educate and promote ways for people to minimalize the damage they are doing to. What are you doing as part of the solution?
@@karmicsheila63 The shear number of humans on the planet is the problem, also China and India building a coal-burning planet a week for the next 30 years, making anything you do almost meaningless. As long as we charge our phones and keep our homes warm or cool its best to not worry about the weather, that's all this is.
@@jimijefferson82 Actually no, this is still a zero sum problem. First, China is the world's largest emitter of carbon pollution. America, however, emits 2x the amount of carbon emissions per capita that China does. So in any case our lifestyle needs to change. Either we mitigate and adapt, or we will be forced to change by ongoing climate events like the aridification of the SW, sea level change, or the fluctuations in the polar jet stream. India pollutes far less than either China or America. And China is leading the world in green technologies and architecture.
It is incomprehensible to me how it is possible to build holiday houses, especially wooden ones, so close to the ocean. The soil is loose sand, which the water washes forever, and the wind storm coming from the ocean hits such houses with enormous force and collapses in an instant like a house of cards.
The Outer Banks, or any barrier islands (Miami Beach I'm referring to you!) are there to *protect* the mainland from storms. Building on barrier island is just plain stupid, as they're bound to be destroyed by storms.
@@tadblackington1676 I advocated that the US should declare one mile from the shore back to be a national park/beach and no private buildings be allowed around 2004 in a term paper. Unfortunately, I also know that what runs this country is greed - both corporate, governmental, private and individual, so doing what's best to protect everyone isn't considered "important." Sigh.
People sleeping in the streets and children going hungry across this nation and we are diverting huge amounts of taxpayer funds to assist rich people so they can keep their luxurious ocean front mansions? Is this what the administration means when they say they support diversity?
There are more people that do care about our environment. Problem is we have too many politicians that don't care about it. These politicians care about their pockets and less about their people. This applies to our coasts and our reliance of fossil fuels too.We need alternative sources of fuel which some do not get funding from non-green companies.
Where do you think those politicians get their money? From YOU, the taxpayer, with all their environmental fees and taxes and laws. Come on, Amy... Do some serious research on 'fossil fuels.' you can't live without them - period!
Anyone who has ever taken an introductory geophysics course knows about the risks of building and living on the shore -- in particular the very high risk of building on sand. I'm shocked at all the wealthy (but uninformed) homeowners who know nothing about the risks of living on sand. Any decent building inspector or civil engineer can tell you sand is subject to liquefaction -- both during earthquakes and flooding. It is the least resistant to water inundation and collapse under sheer stress, so ALL of those properties will eventually slide downhill, off their foundations, and into the sea -- unless, of course, their foundations are built on bedrock. Spending billions on sand dunes -- is simply kicking the can down the road. It will not stop the risk of living on sand and the sea from rising. I can't think of a bigger waste of taxpayer money for the wealthiest people in society, who failed to conduct due diligence when buying a home.
Your insightful comment reminds the words recorded in the Bible book of Matthew Chapter 7 verses 24-27: 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” I suppose fools have been building on sand for a long time. 😕
@@QAsession That is fascinating. Thank you so much for this biblical reference. I love the sea, as well, and have lived near the shore, but never owned that house. But there are others I would consider -- but only those... built on bedrock... and, hopefully, divinely protected. xo
1993 on the NC outer banks was already being washed away into the ocean. I spent a lot of time there from 1974-2005. I was always baffled as to why anyone would live, much less built a home within 5 miles of the beach. We watched as roads were washed out and rebuilt a quarter mile inland from the old road…..WHY?? These people who live and build so close to the water get no sympathy from me.
@@jimijefferson82 for someone that doesn't want more government you sure don't have a problem with spending billions to save rich people's houses through government insurance programs. You hypocrites and your corporate welfare bailouts disgust me. You say you don't want bigger government but you sure want to have money spent on you that could be better spent on homelessness.
@@jakeolthof That is funny you think the solution to homelessness is more money? People who are covered by insurance pay the premiums to cover the cost. You think Bidumb taking his 10% helps you, LOL.
Shore line retreat is tons cheaper! This is a colossal waste of resources that could go to fix society's ills. Mother Nature is always going to win. If you want to live on the shore do it on your own Dime.
These are all band-aid, short-term solutions. The real solution is in how we live our daily lives. Until we make big changes to our behavior and start structuring our society around renewable/green energy resources, none of these efforts will make any substantial difference. Also the comment in the video about having other generations worry about the effects of climate change is exactly why we’re here #okboomer
This Boomer has been an environmentalist since I was 10. I see many young people who don't look beyond tonight's party, let alone the future of the planet.
@@GoGreen1977 as they should because the North Sea is rising quickly and storms more powerful meaning that their flood defenses are quickly being outflanked and overwhelmed.
@@sentientflower7891 they know that, it was the reason they thought it was a bad idea to only protect New York. They actually said it wouldn't work without major investment in other areas. But hey, they are stupid, right?
"Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands." ~George Carlin
At 2:36 a gentleman said something very significant. “You’re not going to stop the ocean”. Why do we humans keep pretending to have the power to do such things?
From the look of things, the houses were already undercut by 1/4 to 1/2 the house length and losing ground. At that rate the least destructive form of demo would involve feet in the house. However the undercut made the home too unstable to step in. Thus only other option is heavy machinery. And when you are talking heavy machinery with a house that has lost half of its foundation, faling into the ocean was inevitable with the force needed to break a roof or other framing of a home.
They seem to have got the furniture out b4, so the destroyed house would get swept out to sea at next high tide or just rot away under new layers of sand.
Sea levels aren't rising, the land is sinking and the climate has nothing to do with it. NOAA has several tide gauges in N. Carolina and the one furthest south is indicating 2.61mm per year rise and is not accelerating
You need to recheck your data. Sea level rise has been clearly documented by studies from every major scientific body in the world, and for years. It's only on social media that it hasn't been proven.🙂
@kpokpojiji All of NOAA's tide gauge graphs show sea level rise is not accelerating. This is not my opinion, this is from NOAA's website. Tide gauges that indicate sea levels are falling (Tofino, Canada and Crescent City, California), continue to fall. The experts will lose their funding if they concede sea levels are stable. Billions of dollars are up for grabs. They are not going to lose this money without a fight. In 1989, "the experts" warned rising were going to swallow The Maldives islands no later than 2018. After that date came and went, they simply moved the date forward.
@@kpokpojiji All of NOAA's tide gauge graphs show sea level rise is not accelerating. This is not my opinion, this is from NOAA's website. Tide gauges that indicate sea levels are falling (Tofino, Canada and Crescent City, California), continue to fall. The experts will lose their funding if they concede sea levels are stable. Billions of dollars are up for grabs. They are not going to lose this money without a fight. In 1989, "the experts" warned rising were going to swallow The Maldives islands no later than 2018. After that date came and went, they simply moved the date forward.
Don't wanna lose all your stuff? Don't put it next to a major source of erosion. Regardless of climate change, mother nature will always win. The idea of building a house on sand, on stilts, next to the Atlantic Ocean, then being surprised when things begin to fall apart is really astounding. Same goes for a house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. Also, never forget the most devastating hurricane to hit the US was in Galveston in 1900, well before anthropomorphic global warming. And the stats show hurricanes are not getting stronger or more frequent. Don't believe the sales pitch.
All that money spent on what will eventually be a lost cause, but high speed rail is apparently a waste of money lmao (btw nice brief shot but no mention about the eroding SD-LA railroad)
Although I feel bad for these people who have lost their homes, there must be a moment when the lightbulb turns on! You can not outsmart or outrun mother nature. Let's learn from all these catastrophes and stop wasting money trying to "prevent" the unavoidable. There is no dune or gate that will keep water out. It can not be done. I hope greed and the ego subside so we can finally live in harmony with the earth.
I live in San Clemente California. Over the last several years we have seen our beaches disappear. They keep building sand berms to protect the erosion. This just makes it worse. What we need is Jettie's or groins which will add sand. But that ain't gonna happen. I'm constantly amazed that people will build literally on the beach or cliffs above.
@@sunnyday7843 because they consider it unsightly and the surfers think it will ruin the surf. Newport Beach faced the same problem years ago and installed jetties, now they have lots more surf spots and long golden beaches and the houses built on the beach are safe.
@@capodad2u the surfers had a jetty and after the storm drain was put there no more surf at “ toes “- I think that area used to flood every now and then - down in PDR village so - the buildings of course wanted the drain . I miss California and just wonder how things are .
Stop with the climate change crap, enough with blaming everything on climate change. Summer is the hottest time of the year! Winter is the rainest time of the year. These are natural events. Check out history and you'll see that these things have happened since time began.
Golly, if only someone had warned us decades ago....quite honestly there should be NO homes on coastlines. No one should be insuring , giving loans nor rebuilding. Common Sense
Ha! That's why I moved to the Appalachian mountains. I'm 1,600 feet up and, despite having a creek on my property, it's 400 feet away from my house. No problems with flooding where I am. Wind now... that's a different story, but it's because of the geology of the area where I live.
The ocean erodes, moves, and builds up beaches always. This has nothing to do with the alleged "climate change." Incidentally, the global tropospheric temperature anomaly dropped to imperceptible 0.05°C in December, while average temperatures in that month dropped to well below the 30-year average in USA48, tropics, and the whole southern hemisphere. Get something else to preach about. How about COVID-19 XBB.1.5 Kraken?
@@user-ue9jq6fp9b The 0.05°C for December represents a *drop* not a rise, a drop from 0.17°C in November, which, in turn *dropped* from 0.32°C in October. The globe has been cooling since 2017.
“The ocean has become an increasingly greedy neighbor” “I’ll let the kids worry about it” “We will think about how we move infrastructure how we move people” I can’t… there’s no hope for humanity. We’ve become so greedy, we either blame other things for the problems we caused or remain reactive instead of proactive.
Several scientists predicted sea level rise 40 - 50 years ago, but as he said, it's something his kids would worry about. The Cape Hatteras lighthouse has moved twice, and no one cared or noticed; why? The U.S. Should give mother nature her buffered borders with businesses and homeowners building two or three miles from the coastline, problem solved. PS: The indigenous people never built permanent settlements directly on the coastline for a reason.😊
New York has the same coastline it did even before the Democrats tried pretending there was a climate change, still cold, still miserable. No Tropical Climate yet, but we're hoping.
31 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild coastlines for the rich homeowners? The largest infrastructure project in the US. Instead of going toward fixing crumbling bridges and all the infrastructure that is decaying after decades of neglect and fiscal irresponsibility. Our government at work...
I suggest you get up to date on the actual, peer reviewed research. This has been demonstrated in research done by every major scientific body on the planet, dating back decades. You might also want to read on the effects of accelerated carbon deposition on the deep water chemistry of the Pacific Valdose Zone as an example of further impact on the oceans. This is available online.
@@kpokpojiji thanks for the botish answer, I am sure your sources will provide reams of information, however I did ask for specific information about actual sea level rise.
I think you have your head in some sort of hole where you can’t see anything around you. Maybe you should try and pull it out. Of course, you may love that view of yours.
In the 1980's and 90's we called the "atmospheric river" the "Pineapple Express." I liked the old name better as it is more descriptive. These storms follow in a curve one after another from west of Hawaii and travel east to the US west coast. California has been subject to the Pineapple Express for a very long time. If rain is heavy enough it causes flooding. Both the Pineapple Express and king tides (highest tides of the year) are likely to happen in December and January. The combination of the two can cause even worse flooding.
So when you transferred to California and showed the lady who lost her house you started out her interview by showing her touching a plant. That plant is carpobrotus edulis and it is from Africa and California planted it purposely all along our coastlines to stabilize them because it grows in sand. It is now considered to be invasive and they claim that it actually destabilizes the sand dunes but I disagree completely. I think they should plant it on those bare dunes in South Carolina. It will grow a thicket of plants that totally cover those dunes and hold the sand in place and the flowers are beautiful and edible too. Actually all of the plant is edible hence the name edulis but you can't eat all of it raw. Basically I recommend planting something that's a dune building plant which means it grows in sand dunes and sand blown by the wind is caught up in its leaves and increases the size and strength of the dunes. It would be nice if it was a plant people could eat or make tea out of not something toxic. You could also plant cakile maritima (sea rocket) which also collects wind blown sand and builds dunes and is edible, Martha Stewart's got a recipe to use it to flavor potatoes.
@@objetty11 That particular one is also called a Hottenhot Fig in South Africa and used to make jam, the leaves can be pickled, and you can eat the flower petals raw or make tea out of them. There are a lot of other species mostly related ones called "ice plant" too. When they were telling people to remove it from local beaches I removed some and transplanted it to my property into places where nothing else grew like my outdoor shower and chicken coup and I have 4 varieties with bright yellow, pale yellow, pale pink, and bright magenta flowers. I have made the jam and pickled the leaves and my 4 year old daughter goes foraging in my yard and eats the flower petals. I don't think it damages the beaches, if it wasn't growing there nothing would be and we'd be having that similar erosion in Cali. I have bagged and tagged saved seed pods from different colored varieties that I have also taste-tested. I am a bit obsessed with wild edible plants.
I am utterly amazed at the blinders people will wear rather than question or forsake the industrial/scientific narrative that dragged us into this lifestyle that is ravaging our planet. The pain and outrage our capitalist culture and outlook have inflicted on the earth and its inhabitants are irredeemable. We have lost our balance.
I never understood the opposition to making changes to combat climate change... Like, why NOT assume that climate change is real and is man-made? If we are wrong, oh well, no harm done. But if climate change is real, and we do nothing, we're goners...
@@donjindra Tell that to the third of Pakistan put under water by recent flooding. Or the 96% of prior American prairie that no longer exists, replaced by farms that have rendered the soil nutritionally neutral and the pesticided landscape that has disabled insect populations to a mere shadow of their former selves. But you're right, ultimately the earth will be just fine. It has survived multiple catastrophes and rebounded with life. Still, wouldn't it seem there is a better way for humans to conduct themselves in its relationship with the planet? Conduct that would be far more reasonable and self-sustaining? The current biomass of the planet is 36% humans, 60% domestic livestock, and 4% native creatures. That doesn't seem to be quite the balance we're looking for.
@@paulwheeler6609 That is nonsense. Floods happen. They've always happened. Drought happen. They've always happened. The hysteria over "climate change" has gotten ridiculous. Then you start throwing in all sorts of other issues that have nothing to do with a climate change. The current biomass of the planet is not 36% human, 60% domestic livestock. That's ridiculous. The fact that you could believe that shows folks like you have completely lost all rationality regarding these issues.
@@donjindra You didn't answer my question. That tells me you really don't want to know. And that's okay. I understand. These are big issues, overwhelming for most. I'm as rational as anyone I know, but the facts speak for themselves. Living in a world where facts no longer matter is a bit of a problem.
Here’s an idea; instead of spending crazy money to protect rich people. We invest in better infrastructure inland where we can move the people when the worst starts happening. SMH small brains.
@ 0:40 is the exact reason we are in this 💩 situation cause people like him! Did you guys hear that. He knew but did think i would affect him in during his life. Leave the problem for the kids/future to deal with it. Just makes me sad!
Why do so many people say: "you have to take the good with the bad", when in fact it's the opposite " you have to take the bad with the good" Just asking !
I've lived in southern California all of my nearly 70 years and the amount of erosion is no different today than any time in the past. I can still enjoy the La Jolla tide pools at the same spot, in the same depth water I found in 1960. Here's an idea, don't build your home on a sandy beach or on the edge of a deteriorating cliff and complain when it falls down. Now they expect our tax dollars to rebuild and protect their multi million dollar homes. Next time, build on stable ground and visit the beach.
That's weird because the tidepools here in Oregon are being swamped and silted in by the nearby beaches, parking lots, picnic areas, etc, being washed into them during storms, due to sea level rise. You must live on an alternate planet.
@@oneoftheninetynine3953 That's the interesting thing about climate and weather. You can't use storms and weather events to describe the climate. We have storms here too, some so severe they wash out roads and down trees. That's not climate. And I always know when I'm speaking with someone who has only bumper sticker and T shirt arguments because they make personal attacks instead of intelligent debate.
What exactly is the golden level of CO2 in the atmosphere that will guarantee we will never have anymore hurricanes, no droughts, no heat waves, no floods, no tornados, and no blizzards?
It has indeed changed over billions of years naturally. However, it doesn't typically change over the course of a lifetime unless a major catastrophe occurs (asteroid or super eruption for example). Burning C02 rich fuels has lead us here.
0:36 "I didn't think it would happen quite as quickly as what it did. I thought it wouldn't happen in my lifetime but let the kids worry about it." typical boomer
It was natural when volcanoes did the job. Now it is us throwing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by the tons daily, watching the results, and people like you calling it "natural." Of course it's natural. Just like setting your house on fire and calling it natural because wildfires happened before the place was settled. Think. Think hard. Harder.
“Natural phenomenon” ignores the overwhelming evidence that the causative mechanism is human activity. All the variations of “it has happened before” ignore magnitude and rate of change, and the copious evidence that we will not adapt without expense and misery. This is why the world is the way it is - the throngs of mullets that don’t think they need a shred of scientific literacy nor a single critical thinking skill. When you feel it is OK to ignore rate of change… well it is game over for you whether you know it or not. You wouldn’t be so blithe about rate or magnitude of change in any other area of your life. Or maybe you would, I’m not sure how bad off your mind is.
@@johnp139 Sea levels have risen 400 feet in the past 20,000 years, 8-9 inches in the last 143 years and you say the rate of chnage has gotten much larger
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