CBS News: “Swallowed By The Sea”
For the best view of the next stage of the climate change debate, you need Mike Page’s help. CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips got a ride in his Cessna plane.
Page has been documenting what’s been happening to his home turf. There’s less and less of it.The soft sand cliffs of certain parts of the coast have always been vulnerable to erosion and the government put in a system of sea defenses about 50 years ago to try to protect it.
For decades, with constant maintenance, it worked. But with rising sea levels and rising costs, about 10 years ago, they gave up. Page’s footage, shot over the past several years, shows what happened.
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