Well, you can try, but it does get a touch expensive:
Since 1998, when the Legislature dedicated a portion of the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund for beach management, $626.6 million has been appropriated to cost-share with local governments on local and federally authorized projects, with each level of government contributing about one-third of the cost of the entire program. This has resulted in the restoration and subsequent maintenance of over 227.8 miles, or nearly 56%, of the stateās 407.3 miles of critically eroded beaches.
So, over half a billion dollars later (!), and half of the ācritically eroded beachesā wereā¦restored (not a great word for it, IMHO).
A common sight from beaches in South Florida is the dredging apparatus used to pull sand from just offshore to then replace the stuff thatās been washed away by Gawdalmighty and her idiot pal, humanity. But hey, black-socked, speedo wearing Northerners donāt seem to mind it at all, and besides, nature takes a distant backseat to economic development/status quo every time.
Yes, because dams made by beavers are generally constructed with thousands of cubic yards of concrete, constricting water flow through enormous turbines and necessitating the export of accumulated silt that would otherwise be deposited downstream. JFC.
Right. Nuclear bombs are made of different metals and fibers, all of which can be found in nature. SO NATURAL THEY ARE.
And when that one species has built, and continues to build, structures of complexity and scale that no other species on that planet will ever come close to building and which damage their surroundings AND the critters living in those surroundings, for me, that kinda sorta leaves the word, āNaturalā way back in the fly ash heap.
All the ores, crude oil, and other feedstocks are found in nature. How much processing is needed to lose the ānaturalā aspect? Where is the threshold?
Any invasive species can roll over a local ecosystem with ease. And it doesnāt require humans to bring some in. Even the native ones can become too numerous if something happens to the predators, e.g. a disease; some big cats, some beasts-of-prey, I donāt remember which ones, carry in their genome a marker of massive viral infection that, if I remember correctly, almost wiped the whole species.
And then there are the blue-green algae which ate enough CO2 and farted enough O2 to change the climate in global scaleā¦
And it doesnāt work. Most of these beaches are back where they were in a couple of years. It is a mugās game. The Corps of Engineers tried mightily, with the full weight of the federal government, to stabilize the shore around Hatteras. In the end, they were forced to pick up the historic lighthouse and move it back.
One of these things is not like the otherā¦
