Florida's Vanishing Beaches: The fight against coastal erosion

Florida beach erosion is reaching a critical point across most of the state. Dunes and sand are lost to hurricanes, tropical storms, and winter cold front that bring severe weather.

[@emmyo6678]

This is not a big deal. It's normal. Here on Vancouver island Canada the sand disappeared a long time ago. We don't try to replace it for tourists or the rich. It's natural. We wear water shoes to protect our feet from the stones, rocks and barnacles. Absolutely natural for beaches to lose the sand.

[@sdubs]

Serious question: So if the earth is billions of years old, or even millions for that matter... and it takes just a few years for erosion at beaches to happen like this... then why (after billions of years) hasn't the entire earth been covered in water by now? Numbers don't seem to add up.

[@TheDEFCONtwo]

Not enough water,

[@amarsinghhembram4379]

Shorelines March ahead and recede cyclically after several years of interval and those cycles have been going on for millions of years.

[@marylynne9104]

One coastline loses mass, and another gains it. It shifts, it does not just disappear.

[@sunshinedewes4277]

Mother Nature. Not Man. has the last say.

[@CARLIN4737]

And it will be the end of our days when it decides enough is enough.

[@Metis1337]

hope these people dont try and save these beaches, it just makes the situation worse.

[@easyb622]

The two hurricanes did a trick to worsen the Florida coastline, especially the east coast of Florida. I wouldn’t buy any houses on the coast right now.

[@dwightengle8802]

The more of Florida that sinks into the ocean, the better off we are. I 🤣

[@passingthroughtime3033]

No beach No tourist

[@edwardprice140]

If you pave the beaches then the sand can't get away, duh. Problem solved.

[@garymiller8287]

Thank Rick "no climate change" Scot for not taking reality into account for the future of the sunshine state

[@k.kaiser3997]

Mother Nature acts as their tax advisor and helps them optimize their property taxes almost to '0' , the benefit

[@passingthroughtime3033]

There is plenty of sand in the ocean. Get working.

[@whatchamacallit70]

That has ecological consequences to dredging sand from the ocean.

[@marylynne9104]

That does not solve the problem, it just moves it somewhere else. Also destroys marine habitats.