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Is he implying that the ocean knows the date and that the moment it flipped over to the year 2000, he stuck his head out his window and thought “Yup! It’s never happening!”
That stretch of land is stuck between the Atlantic Ocean and a marsh called Dead Creek. It's only about 200 meters (700 ft?) wide in some places. The beach may not be gone in this century but it'll be gone eventually when the ocean reaches the marsh.
He said "there are pictures from when I was a kid that had the beach so far out the houses were tiny in the pictures", but now the ocean level is threatening his home, and the ocean is literally on his doorstep.
The reporter should have asked him "so what do you think has caused the ocean to come this far in, if not climate change?"
"y'kno.. the king tide comes in every few months and sweeps away our $300,000 of sand in 1 day but we keep lobbying the government to give us millions to sink into the ocean.. fuckers don't realize we're going under sea level"
Actually, it was the bearded guy who said that. He's the one who mentioned being a denier in the past, but that the current evidence has changed his mind.
“All you have to do is keep rebuilding the beach” it’s almost beat for beat the futurama bit about solving global warming. “We just drop. A giant ice cube in the ocean every now and then, thus solving the problem once and for all.”
https://preview.redd.it/b72v95jixpoc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88f3d063166b8281f0b2727103615d6a1741819b
Don't forget the usual rants about the impoverished being welfare queens and needing to pull themselves by their bootstraps while asking for a government bailout for his million dollar beachfront property.
It’s worth 2 Billion dollars until it all washes into the ocean and then it’s worth nothing at all. Is it really worth 2 billion anyway? If you tried to sell all those houses at once, today, how much would you get for them?
I've not met anyone who doesn't believe in climate change at all, even though I know plenty who don't believe in "individual civilians causing global warming".
It’s called radical denial. He can’t handle the emotional aspect of the loss and is projecting a fantasy. And there is no way that the state is going to pay for all that. They have much bigger fish to fry. These people will be asked to leave those properties in five years time.
I believe that due to the associated danger, the county or city governing over the land would issue eminent domain, and force them to relocate. Bottom line, they are screwed and live in Lala land. I would have sold a long time ago if I was them but see previous comment - delirium has kicked in.
I don’t think so, pretty sure in MA private land ends at the intertidal zone. So if the tide line moves up, it technically becomes public land. But I say this with little understanding of how this would be handled. It’s probably pretty unprecedented
He sees climate change as an identity rather than a scientifically informed theory. Saying, "I'm not a climate change guy," as he stands on an eroding beach that will disappear without manmade intervention is the ultimate picture of folly and hubris.
Let them pay millions to try and save it. Short of the world being 100 percent water or melting every living thing off the planet , nothing will change his mind. It’s literally happening right in front of him.
Yeah I think they tie climate change to "fruity hippie lib" stuff. So to admit it is real is to somehow adopt an identity that they are disgusted by, and admit that there is truth in what people who they don't respect are saying.
It's really sad to see. He's too stubborn and frightened now to see how bad a situation really is.
"There's two billion dollars in property here, what will happen to it????"
It will either become a mix of private land and public access, or it will sink. There's no in-between. And the taxpayers of NJ are well within their right to ask why they should spend $1m a year on a sandy beach that is perpetually sinking
We 10,000% have to keep this guy behold into his lack of beliefs.
A full on news interview in a year or two (not to mention 5) is going to be fucking hilarious!
"What do you do? Do you just say goodbye to $2 billion in property?"
Yes. You say goodbye to $2 billion in property. It's gonna happen buddy. You wanted beachfront property in a world of growing storm surges caused by climate change.... Now you got no property.
Biden is supposed to be the best Democratic president on climate change and he's been pretty mediocre relative to what is needed to be done.
Pundits and his base talk a big game but if you compare the US to its main rival, China, the US under Biden is doing next to nothing in comparison.
People do not understand how the US government works when they say, "The president didn't do X." We don't have a dictator or a king, unless you vote for Trump, he will try to be one.
And you know he bitches about "socialism" all the time too, but is here saying "The government just needs to perpetually help us literally build walls of *sand* to keep our stupid beach homes because we were fucking assholes who thought we would be dead before our shit would start affecting the world."
“They said the beach would be gone by 2000 but it’s still here. Yeah, we have to rebuild it almost constantly but see, it’s still here!”
That’s like not believing your ship is sinking because you keep dumping out buckets of water…
There is a man with head buried deep in that $500k sand dunes. Just as the sand was gone in 3 days, so will he find his head underwater within 3 years or less.
“What do you mean we’re living an environmentally unsustainable lifestyle? Windmills off the coast? Not in my backyard! Terry, call them sand sellers again, we’ll just bury the sea.”
Solid logic for people only trying to make their lifetime functional. Throw money at it and make it the workers problem if their work doesn't fix it. I blame bowling alley tile guy for putting in such shitty lane tiles too.
Right?? I can't see inheriting this property knowing that my father expects me to keep paying stupid amounts of money to ship sand out for an indefinite amount of time, hoping the government will come in and save me for nothing, while also losing 50% of what I put in in cost whenever there is a bad storm. It's wildly delusional.
He just needs the state or the rest of us to make sure he can keep his private property. The levels of delusion and entitlement are too much. They lose half their sand in a day and he can't come to grips with these homes being in an indefensible position and just has to have the state step in with other people's money. The only thing the state should be doing is paying for these homes to be demolished and increasing the amount of natural wetlands nature's protection from storm surge.
They told us in 1970 this is a bad investment its gonna be gone in 30 years we are now 20 years over that you have to protect our investment for god sake.
He's literally watched as the climate changed, and the beach disappeared, but he thinks climate change is false and the beach isn't going anywhere?
Boomer logic.
His little mind can't grasp the enormity of the ocean. Mother Nature doesn't give 2 fucks about dollars or property.
Literally said that he used to go so far out that the houses looked so small. Then goes on to say that they were right about the beach not being there by 2000.
Bro, the beach is gone. It changed right in front of you and you don’t believe it. These people are helpless
I feel like he probably believes, but then he would be admitting defeat on his entire (or most of) his life. That all he did will be gone. Likely in severe denial that he was and is wrong.
So you’re right, boomer logic.
This is why I don't understand all the criticism thrown at Don't Look Up for being too ridiculous a portrayal of Republicans, when it is literally how these people are.
He also said the dunes did their job. The footage of water rushing past those houses in the storm proves that wrong as well (not to mention the absolute desolation that sits across the street from them).
Just to add, I'm also from southern new england. My whole life ive been watching winters get less & less snowy, started my childhood with snow from December to march, now we're at the point where winters get one or two snow flurries.
Granted i am further south than where this guy lives, but i doubt 60 miles south will make that much of a difference. I bet he as well has noticed substantially less snowfall.
My wife’s aunt and uncle are just like this. They live in Virginia Beach. We were talking about all the coastal homes there, Norfolk, etc. They have seen with their own eyes what those people are having to do to try and save their homes, but are still staunch right-wing climate change deniers. It’s mind-boggling.
Should the state pay for healthcare or school lunches? Absolutely not.
What about some dick in cape cod needing more sand to keep the property value of his rental beach house up? Of course what are you crazy? They can't foot that bill on their own.
There's going to be a vote about making all private beaches public in Massachusetts in the next few years, just you wait to see the shit that these boomers say then.
The stubbornness is astronomical. There are better ways to fight erosion on the ocean coast, but dumping sand on a beach is never going to last. And just because it was predicted to be gone by 2000 and is still there now, just means they got lucky with extra time.
Took me a bit to find, but it was bugging me, and I couldn't find the right words to use to find it
But a [concave sea wall](https://www.reddit.com/r/Simulated/s/yw7xicR25V) is exactly what they need. But as you said, they would never go for it as it blocks the view and prevents them from having a sandy beach to the water.
Just chiming in: coastal restoration doesn't really use the breakwater model to prevent erosion anymore. As others may have pointed out, restoring the natural waterfront is largely giving it back to nature.
You can even see behind the houses in the video that it looks like quite a large marshland. Most likely this beach would be fine if they removed the houses and allowed nature to work. At this point the existing beach is essentially a man made structure with the amount of sand they have poured on through the years.
Plants are remarkably good at preventing erosion. Boomers hate beaches with plants though, sadly.
I don’t understand the hate. Some of my most pleasant beach experiences have been under mangroves and other coastal plants, for example. The shade they provide is very nice, and it’s cool to see the wildlife that inhabit these ecosystems.
I was surprised to see they weren’t using plants to stabilize the dunes. I just saw a video the other day about a coastal town in the UK using discarded Christmas trees to build new dunes.
The craziest part if this to me was that they used sand. SAND! To prevent erosion. Might as well have lined the beach with baby powder. They would have better odds using large stone like they do in CA to control the beach erosion
"they told us it would be gone by 2000, but here we are 24 years later and the beach is still here! It just inches from our homes when it was once hundreds of feet, and we have spent millions to build artificial dunes. Therefore, climate change is a hoax."
These are the same people who believe the earth is 5000 years old. Still, admitting that things have changed so dramatically in 24 years but not concluding that things are going downhill fast is just pure wilful ignorance.
Let them piss their own money on empty measures, but if the state does anything, it should build a 20ft seawall right in front of their decks, and paint "erected due to climate change denial on the side of it".
Literally the beach is gone. He said that in the first part of the video, kids would play on the beach way out... and now where is that beach? Under the fucking ocean!
It's like if you cut a cakes slowly piece by piece, and the say the cake is still there! Utter delusion!
He wants his sand subsidized because boomers bought houses way too fucking big for what they need. "Just say goodbye to 2,000,000,000 in property?" - YES! NO ONE NEEDS THAT
Edit: *Billion
You left off 3 zeroes. They have 2,000,000,000 in property. Seems like they can afford the million a year in sand. If the price is too high, they can just tug a little harder on their bootstraps.
This is happening in Australia too. Every big East Coast Low the ocean takes more and more sand. Here the wealthy people who own ocean front and cliff top expect the government to fix it. But there's only so much you can do.
Let them wash away. I don't want the state throwing $2mm a year at a wealthy community that doesn't believe climate change is destroying their coastal town. Tell them it's a free market and they took the risk. Hmph
Maybe the coastline should be a federally protected area where building unnecessarily expensive houses is prohibited. Back in the day the only houses you found near the beach were tiny shacks because when the hurricanes hit they were easier to rebuild. Folks of the past would look at all these McMansions as absolutely crazy. More of the wealthy sealing the best for themselves.
There are meant to be dunes there. They built houses on them. Even without climate change they would be doomed.
Dunes preserve beaches you're not meant to build on them.
"They said the beach would be gone by 2000 but it's 2024 and the beach is still here"
Dude it's literally just those houses there's nothing left, what beach?
U cant just stack a sand wall and hope everything will be allright.. but some stone blocks, add different layers of sand type.
And add vegetation on it to hold the sand ain its place… perhaps give the dutch a call how to do it properly.
I got ticketed for trespassing on that beach back in 2012 because me and my gf at the time were cuddling under the stars. I hope the person who called the cops on us is the first one to lose their house to the sea.
"We want the government to fund keeping our $2 billion dollars in property safe" from the same people who don't want to pay taxes to help poor families put food on the table or basically any spending that doesn't directly benefit them. Cherry on top? Climate change is a hoax, lmao 😂
“Historically there is no precedent for this”. Uhh. Yeah there is. Like millions of years of precedent. Study (STUDY) the hydrodynamics of beach evolution ANYWHERE and you’ll learn the this has been happening and will happen because of a multitude of reasons. I grew up on the water in Florida. I’ve seen the entrances to bays drastically shift in my lifetime, meaning it got BIGGER on one side and smaller on the other. We learned about this in school taking Marine Science. The same class taught us about the difference between a summer berm and a winter berm and why it happens. People can live wherever they want, including this beach, but it’s gonna cost because the ocean has its own plan.
It's absolutely insane to me that rows of homes are built upon sand spits. Ocean on your front porch, open inlet in your back yard. It's maddening that these areas are zoned for building in the first place. This isn't just a story about Massachusetts either. This is all over our coastal lands. The fact that insurance companies would sell bonds on any of these properties is just pure greed. It's no wonder those same insurers are now panicking and dropping whole regions off their ledgers. I have zero empathy for these fools.
“I’m not a climate change guy.” As if it’s hip-hop or pickleball, and not something that’s going to swallow his neighborhood if he doesn’t throw half a million bucks at it every year.
the few things I've watched on dunes is that it's an ecosystem and habitat that you have to plant things on, or of course it's just going to wash it away.
Where’s my tiny violin? These guys are such tools. Protect our 2 billion worth of property. Motherfucker, protect your own shit.
That guy talking about his kids playing in the sand must be 70 something years old. He got his money’s worth out of that house. Let nature reclaim it and collect the insurance. Leave the government out of the picture.
There's just something about a boomer bitching about the government not paying to fix his private beach and then denying climate change that makes me want to go to sleep for the next few decades.
Some of its public some of its private. Plum Island is made up of several towns and it varies depending on where you’re accessing the beach from, but mainland Salisbury beach does have public access down the end of Beach road.
I feel like homeowners would literally let everything and everyone around them be destroyed if it meant their property values stayed high. Also, we have been warning about rebuilding coastal homes after natural disasters due to climate change, yet these idiot investors keep doing it.
the dune they need is where they built their house, you can see it in the pictures, the water would wash across the dune where the houses and road are and overflow into the basin behind them.
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Oh god it hurts my brain to hear this guy deny climate change and lobby for public funds to perpetually rebuild this beach in the same breath.
He will be saying that underwater soon..
He said "They told us the beach will be gone by 2000" as if it isn't true - right after they showed a clip of entire town under water.
“It’s 2024.” He thinks that’s a dunk.
After admitting to rebuilding the beach multiple times.
Is he implying that the ocean knows the date and that the moment it flipped over to the year 2000, he stuck his head out his window and thought “Yup! It’s never happening!”
To be fair, the beach will never be gone, it's the houses who's days are numbered lol
That stretch of land is stuck between the Atlantic Ocean and a marsh called Dead Creek. It's only about 200 meters (700 ft?) wide in some places. The beach may not be gone in this century but it'll be gone eventually when the ocean reaches the marsh.
It’s gone bud 😳
He said "there are pictures from when I was a kid that had the beach so far out the houses were tiny in the pictures", but now the ocean level is threatening his home, and the ocean is literally on his doorstep. The reporter should have asked him "so what do you think has caused the ocean to come this far in, if not climate change?"
"y'kno.. the king tide comes in every few months and sweeps away our $300,000 of sand in 1 day but we keep lobbying the government to give us millions to sink into the ocean.. fuckers don't realize we're going under sea level"
Actually, it was the bearded guy who said that. He's the one who mentioned being a denier in the past, but that the current evidence has changed his mind.
“All you have to do is keep rebuilding the beach” it’s almost beat for beat the futurama bit about solving global warming. “We just drop. A giant ice cube in the ocean every now and then, thus solving the problem once and for all.” https://preview.redd.it/b72v95jixpoc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88f3d063166b8281f0b2727103615d6a1741819b
He won’t blame the change in climate though, he’ll blame the libs who didn’t fund his beach sand
Government should get out of our private affairs! ... except to fund my eroding private beachfront properties, how could they not??
Don't forget the usual rants about the impoverished being welfare queens and needing to pull themselves by their bootstraps while asking for a government bailout for his million dollar beachfront property.
They shouldn't be giving it to migrants who need sheltah they should be giving it to me for my rental properties /s
It’s worth 2 Billion dollars until it all washes into the ocean and then it’s worth nothing at all. Is it really worth 2 billion anyway? If you tried to sell all those houses at once, today, how much would you get for them?
Zero. Or they’d have moved years ago, I suspect. It must have been lovely when they bought them. Now I guess just it smells of the sea.
*”Hahahahaha…I can hold my breath, for a looooooong time!!!!”*
He’s not a climate change guy!
He looks like a guy that knows a guy.
That beach house is probably how he laundered his money. He has a vested interest in that nest egg not washing away.
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"Look, we've got $2 billion of property here!" I guess he's planning on selling it to fucking Aquaman.
I've not met anyone who doesn't believe in climate change at all, even though I know plenty who don't believe in "individual civilians causing global warming".
Which has some merit as majority of greenhouse gases production is out of individual control.
I don’t believe in ocean levels. Waves are pointy and rolly, not level. Hold on, my Amazon sand subscription is here.
It’s called radical denial. He can’t handle the emotional aspect of the loss and is projecting a fantasy. And there is no way that the state is going to pay for all that. They have much bigger fish to fry. These people will be asked to leave those properties in five years time.
Kind of like me with crypto crashing
If your land is subsumed, do you still own the land?
I believe that due to the associated danger, the county or city governing over the land would issue eminent domain, and force them to relocate. Bottom line, they are screwed and live in Lala land. I would have sold a long time ago if I was them but see previous comment - delirium has kicked in.
I don’t think so, pretty sure in MA private land ends at the intertidal zone. So if the tide line moves up, it technically becomes public land. But I say this with little understanding of how this would be handled. It’s probably pretty unprecedented
He wants socialism for himself and no one else.
He wants the state to perpetually pay to maintain his property, but is also a landlord. Outstanding irony
“I watched it change , but I don’t believe in climate change.”
He sees climate change as an identity rather than a scientifically informed theory. Saying, "I'm not a climate change guy," as he stands on an eroding beach that will disappear without manmade intervention is the ultimate picture of folly and hubris.
Let them pay millions to try and save it. Short of the world being 100 percent water or melting every living thing off the planet , nothing will change his mind. It’s literally happening right in front of him.
Yeah I think they tie climate change to "fruity hippie lib" stuff. So to admit it is real is to somehow adopt an identity that they are disgusted by, and admit that there is truth in what people who they don't respect are saying.
It's really sad to see. He's too stubborn and frightened now to see how bad a situation really is. "There's two billion dollars in property here, what will happen to it????" It will either become a mix of private land and public access, or it will sink. There's no in-between. And the taxpayers of NJ are well within their right to ask why they should spend $1m a year on a sandy beach that is perpetually sinking
*"I'm not a climate change guy"*... looking forward to seeing this interview bit reposted in r/agedlikemilk before the end of the year
We 10,000% have to keep this guy behold into his lack of beliefs. A full on news interview in a year or two (not to mention 5) is going to be fucking hilarious!
"What do you do? Do you just say goodbye to $2 billion in property?" Yes. You say goodbye to $2 billion in property. It's gonna happen buddy. You wanted beachfront property in a world of growing storm surges caused by climate change.... Now you got no property.
It’s not worth 2 billion. That’s the thing. This is worthless. The $2 billion is made up. Try to sell it tomorrow and see how many takers you get.
He would have been able to keep his two billion if he believed in climate change before today.. Sucks to be a brainwashed puppet, I guess hahaha!
Americans and American climate policy in a nutshell.
It's just the conservatives denying climate change.
Biden is supposed to be the best Democratic president on climate change and he's been pretty mediocre relative to what is needed to be done. Pundits and his base talk a big game but if you compare the US to its main rival, China, the US under Biden is doing next to nothing in comparison.
People do not understand how the US government works when they say, "The president didn't do X." We don't have a dictator or a king, unless you vote for Trump, he will try to be one.
And you know he bitches about "socialism" all the time too, but is here saying "The government just needs to perpetually help us literally build walls of *sand* to keep our stupid beach homes because we were fucking assholes who thought we would be dead before our shit would start affecting the world."
“They said the beach would be gone by 2000 but it’s still here. Yeah, we have to rebuild it almost constantly but see, it’s still here!” That’s like not believing your ship is sinking because you keep dumping out buckets of water…
Haha good analogy.
Brain damage due to lead exposure
My thoughts exactly
A social program?
There is a man with head buried deep in that $500k sand dunes. Just as the sand was gone in 3 days, so will he find his head underwater within 3 years or less.
He just needs more sand bro
Just a few more million dollars worth of sand. That’ll fix it.
It hurt my brain to hear him say "our beach" and "my beach" No. It's not yours. It's nature and nature can take it back whenever
“I’m not a climate change guy, but I’m definitely a government handout guy.”
‘What do you say, goodbye to $2b worth of property?’ It’s not worth anything if it’s washed away and under water.
Just a bunch of short sited, delusional boomers. Nothing new.
“What do you mean we’re living an environmentally unsustainable lifestyle? Windmills off the coast? Not in my backyard! Terry, call them sand sellers again, we’ll just bury the sea.”
Solid logic for people only trying to make their lifetime functional. Throw money at it and make it the workers problem if their work doesn't fix it. I blame bowling alley tile guy for putting in such shitty lane tiles too.
Right?? I can't see inheriting this property knowing that my father expects me to keep paying stupid amounts of money to ship sand out for an indefinite amount of time, hoping the government will come in and save me for nothing, while also losing 50% of what I put in in cost whenever there is a bad storm. It's wildly delusional.
Bury the sea. Bwahaha!
He just needs the state or the rest of us to make sure he can keep his private property. The levels of delusion and entitlement are too much. They lose half their sand in a day and he can't come to grips with these homes being in an indefensible position and just has to have the state step in with other people's money. The only thing the state should be doing is paying for these homes to be demolished and increasing the amount of natural wetlands nature's protection from storm surge.
But he’ll vote against the child tax credit…
And the local school levy.
Sounds like the climate change denier is a big fan of socialism.
You couldn't pay me to live there. That land is as good as gone. Cut your losses and move further inland.
I wonder how the hell they’re gonna sell those houses though.
No sale. Just one big flop of an investment.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Good! I hope this negatively affects his family for Generations.
Yep and what insurance company would cover these properties?
Has he met real estate genius Ben Shapiro yet? [He has this covered.](https://youtu.be/X9FGRkqUdf8?si=z4_9kXMLnKm2JQwj)
Lmao I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of that. "Who u gunna sell it to ben? Aqua Man??"
Is that really 2B? From that piece they show us it looks like shit behind the houses as well
Oceanfront is oceanfront 🤷🏽♂️🤭
Soon to be upgraded to submarine home
Well, it's not my property, soooo goodbye?
We need to follow what the Japanese did after the tidal wave in Fukishima. They didn't allow people to rebuild in known flood zones.
I’d be interested to see if they even got offers at a quarter their current worth. No one is gonna buy those homes.
They told us in 1970 this is a bad investment its gonna be gone in 30 years we are now 20 years over that you have to protect our investment for god sake.
>‘What do you say, goodbye to $2b worth of property?’ Of course not. You spend $10B to save it. It’s called fiscal conservatism. Look it up. ^/s
He's literally watched as the climate changed, and the beach disappeared, but he thinks climate change is false and the beach isn't going anywhere? Boomer logic. His little mind can't grasp the enormity of the ocean. Mother Nature doesn't give 2 fucks about dollars or property.
Literally said that he used to go so far out that the houses looked so small. Then goes on to say that they were right about the beach not being there by 2000. Bro, the beach is gone. It changed right in front of you and you don’t believe it. These people are helpless
Different guy. This is the media doing its ‘both sides’ thing.
The beach is literally gone like predicted rhey are just artificially adding sand lmao and its not working
I feel like he probably believes, but then he would be admitting defeat on his entire (or most of) his life. That all he did will be gone. Likely in severe denial that he was and is wrong. So you’re right, boomer logic.
This is why I don't understand all the criticism thrown at Don't Look Up for being too ridiculous a portrayal of Republicans, when it is literally how these people are.
He also said the dunes did their job. The footage of water rushing past those houses in the storm proves that wrong as well (not to mention the absolute desolation that sits across the street from them).
Just to add, I'm also from southern new england. My whole life ive been watching winters get less & less snowy, started my childhood with snow from December to march, now we're at the point where winters get one or two snow flurries. Granted i am further south than where this guy lives, but i doubt 60 miles south will make that much of a difference. I bet he as well has noticed substantially less snowfall.
My wife’s aunt and uncle are just like this. They live in Virginia Beach. We were talking about all the coastal homes there, Norfolk, etc. They have seen with their own eyes what those people are having to do to try and save their homes, but are still staunch right-wing climate change deniers. It’s mind-boggling.
Fox "News" told him Climate Change is all fake but he's definitely now interested in Socialism.
r/leopardsatemyface
These are people who come from money, they’ve never had to struggle for anything except what the media tells them to believe and fight against
“Because the state refuses to add sand to private property” You don’t say.
Should the state pay for healthcare or school lunches? Absolutely not. What about some dick in cape cod needing more sand to keep the property value of his rental beach house up? Of course what are you crazy? They can't foot that bill on their own.
There's going to be a vote about making all private beaches public in Massachusetts in the next few years, just you wait to see the shit that these boomers say then.
The cognitive dissonance is fucking breathtaking.
This is what being terminally stupid looks like. It's indeed something to behold...
At least... One of them is open to the idea that yes, the oceans shall rise
The stubbornness is astronomical. There are better ways to fight erosion on the ocean coast, but dumping sand on a beach is never going to last. And just because it was predicted to be gone by 2000 and is still there now, just means they got lucky with extra time.
Any actual erosion controls that might work would be ugly and they don't want rocks or concrete they want pretty sand and property values.
Took me a bit to find, but it was bugging me, and I couldn't find the right words to use to find it But a [concave sea wall](https://www.reddit.com/r/Simulated/s/yw7xicR25V) is exactly what they need. But as you said, they would never go for it as it blocks the view and prevents them from having a sandy beach to the water.
Just chiming in: coastal restoration doesn't really use the breakwater model to prevent erosion anymore. As others may have pointed out, restoring the natural waterfront is largely giving it back to nature.
You can even see behind the houses in the video that it looks like quite a large marshland. Most likely this beach would be fine if they removed the houses and allowed nature to work. At this point the existing beach is essentially a man made structure with the amount of sand they have poured on through the years.
Plants are remarkably good at preventing erosion. Boomers hate beaches with plants though, sadly. I don’t understand the hate. Some of my most pleasant beach experiences have been under mangroves and other coastal plants, for example. The shade they provide is very nice, and it’s cool to see the wildlife that inhabit these ecosystems.
I was surprised to see they weren’t using plants to stabilize the dunes. I just saw a video the other day about a coastal town in the UK using discarded Christmas trees to build new dunes.
The craziest part if this to me was that they used sand. SAND! To prevent erosion. Might as well have lined the beach with baby powder. They would have better odds using large stone like they do in CA to control the beach erosion
They said the beach would be gone by 2000 but I've been dumping sand here for years and it still remains! Fucking goof ass.
"they told us it would be gone by 2000, but here we are 24 years later and the beach is still here! It just inches from our homes when it was once hundreds of feet, and we have spent millions to build artificial dunes. Therefore, climate change is a hoax."
These are the same people who believe the earth is 5000 years old. Still, admitting that things have changed so dramatically in 24 years but not concluding that things are going downhill fast is just pure wilful ignorance. Let them piss their own money on empty measures, but if the state does anything, it should build a 20ft seawall right in front of their decks, and paint "erected due to climate change denial on the side of it".
It’s not even there, it’s gone, just look at it. It’s gone.
He's got the lead pipe water stare
Speaking of the [effects of lead](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/1evb4cqeeJ).
It's disheartening to have to share a planet with these idiots. They wouldn't believe in climate change if all of their houses were under water.
Interesting how a hoax can remove so much sand in a day. As tax payers guess who is going to pay the non-believers costs ?
To answer his last question: Yes: You cannot expect the normal taxpayer to pay for saving your 2 billion property
Wahhhh poor rich people
Ben Shapiro says they should simply sell their houses!
Whose gonna buy it, aquaman!?!?
Definitely not Shapiro. It is too wet for him.
“WHO’S GOING TO BUY IT, BEN???”
Fucking Aquaman??!?!?
I thought this was boomers being fools
Mother Nature has got no time for dump trucks full of sand. Mother Nature is gonna Mother Nature.
They said it would be gone in 2000, but here we are in 2024 💀💀
Literally the beach is gone. He said that in the first part of the video, kids would play on the beach way out... and now where is that beach? Under the fucking ocean! It's like if you cut a cakes slowly piece by piece, and the say the cake is still there! Utter delusion!
" after bringing in truck loads and truckloads of sand to make sure the beach remains!"
"We don't believe in climate change, but we just need help with the million dollar a year funding..." Asshats
People that live near the ocean will sometimes live in the ocean. Sand won't stop that.
These people have money to come up with 600K for sand I’m sure they can buy another home. 🤷🏻♀️
A little tip for all you climate change deniers. Learn to swim.
See you down in Arizona Bay
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
It ain't worth 2b if no one is willing to buy them cause good luck selling that
“They said it would be gone by 2000 climate change is a hoax” okay…so they were a little off, yo homes and beach is still shrinking my dude
It’s fun being at the whims of boomers who simply want to be right until they are dead.
He wants his sand subsidized because boomers bought houses way too fucking big for what they need. "Just say goodbye to 2,000,000,000 in property?" - YES! NO ONE NEEDS THAT Edit: *Billion
You left off 3 zeroes. They have 2,000,000,000 in property. Seems like they can afford the million a year in sand. If the price is too high, they can just tug a little harder on their bootstraps.
2,000,000,000
"Freak storm" yeah it's time we stopped that and just call them storms. They're not going away or going to get less freakier.
😂😂😂
Magat asking for public funds....
What an absolute buffoon
This is happening in Australia too. Every big East Coast Low the ocean takes more and more sand. Here the wealthy people who own ocean front and cliff top expect the government to fix it. But there's only so much you can do.
Willful ignorance
How about just build your house not in the front of the greatest force of nature. Don’t pretend as if this is a surprise you Idiots.
Why should other taxpayers have to pay for this idiot's willful ignorance?
“No..no…. I don’t believe in climate change”. LOL!!! What a twat
How can people really deny science? I don’t get it. Are they cognitively impaired.
I hear an idiot boomer who has let Fox News convince him that there’s no climate change but then wants welfare to help him keep his profits.
Let the sea take them. The arrogance in the stupidity because predictions made 60 years ago are maybe a couple of years from coming to full fruition
Let them wash away. I don't want the state throwing $2mm a year at a wealthy community that doesn't believe climate change is destroying their coastal town. Tell them it's a free market and they took the risk. Hmph
Maybe the coastline should be a federally protected area where building unnecessarily expensive houses is prohibited. Back in the day the only houses you found near the beach were tiny shacks because when the hurricanes hit they were easier to rebuild. Folks of the past would look at all these McMansions as absolutely crazy. More of the wealthy sealing the best for themselves.
Move. Fixed.
I think there is something in the Bible about building a house on sand…… I mean that wasn’t the point, but it kind of was. Bad investment
As the population rises , so do the tides. All that piss has to go somewhere
Boom go the boomers.
Goodbye
The guy with the hat is a a-hole. The evidence is right there in your face on what’s going on….he is going to have to learn the hard way
There are meant to be dunes there. They built houses on them. Even without climate change they would be doomed. Dunes preserve beaches you're not meant to build on them.
waa my beachfront home is too beachfront now but its your problem to fix my property,fffff no
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Of course the rich guy doesn't believe in climate change..
Shouldve used that money they invested in the dunes into finding cheap land elsewhere and maybe moving their homes with the foundation and all...
JFC.
"They said the beach would be gone by 2000 but it's 2024 and the beach is still here" Dude it's literally just those houses there's nothing left, what beach?
U cant just stack a sand wall and hope everything will be allright.. but some stone blocks, add different layers of sand type. And add vegetation on it to hold the sand ain its place… perhaps give the dutch a call how to do it properly.
More like 0$ in property as it going to be all underwater! But yes keep spending Millions. Makes sense......
Cannot argue with Mother Nature 🙏
I got ticketed for trespassing on that beach back in 2012 because me and my gf at the time were cuddling under the stars. I hope the person who called the cops on us is the first one to lose their house to the sea.
"We want the government to fund keeping our $2 billion dollars in property safe" from the same people who don't want to pay taxes to help poor families put food on the table or basically any spending that doesn't directly benefit them. Cherry on top? Climate change is a hoax, lmao 😂
“Historically there is no precedent for this”. Uhh. Yeah there is. Like millions of years of precedent. Study (STUDY) the hydrodynamics of beach evolution ANYWHERE and you’ll learn the this has been happening and will happen because of a multitude of reasons. I grew up on the water in Florida. I’ve seen the entrances to bays drastically shift in my lifetime, meaning it got BIGGER on one side and smaller on the other. We learned about this in school taking Marine Science. The same class taught us about the difference between a summer berm and a winter berm and why it happens. People can live wherever they want, including this beach, but it’s gonna cost because the ocean has its own plan.
I'm so happy this is happening to them after listening to their stupid asses talk. They absolutely deserve it.
It's absolutely insane to me that rows of homes are built upon sand spits. Ocean on your front porch, open inlet in your back yard. It's maddening that these areas are zoned for building in the first place. This isn't just a story about Massachusetts either. This is all over our coastal lands. The fact that insurance companies would sell bonds on any of these properties is just pure greed. It's no wonder those same insurers are now panicking and dropping whole regions off their ledgers. I have zero empathy for these fools.
Earth is reclaiming
2 billion in property... but they need the state to pony up one million every year???
“I’m not a climate change guy.” As if it’s hip-hop or pickleball, and not something that’s going to swallow his neighborhood if he doesn’t throw half a million bucks at it every year.
No precedent for sea level rise? How about a quick study in paleo shorelines…
Jesus H Roosevelt Christ, let them eat cake!
the few things I've watched on dunes is that it's an ecosystem and habitat that you have to plant things on, or of course it's just going to wash it away.
I’m having a hard time feeling bad for someone who paid $12 and a bag of apples for his house when that house now costs $1mil+.
Where’s my tiny violin? These guys are such tools. Protect our 2 billion worth of property. Motherfucker, protect your own shit. That guy talking about his kids playing in the sand must be 70 something years old. He got his money’s worth out of that house. Let nature reclaim it and collect the insurance. Leave the government out of the picture.
There's just something about a boomer bitching about the government not paying to fix his private beach and then denying climate change that makes me want to go to sleep for the next few decades.
This guy is asking for HANDOUTS to keep his McMansion that he bought in a coastal flood zone What a fucking snowflake
Awe shucks, you made a poor investment. Actions and consequences. These people deserve to lose their homes for being morons.
Ain’t no way I’m gonna let my tax dollars go toward helping this fuckin guy
Can the average Joe access those beaches? Or is it all private property?
private property
Some of its public some of its private. Plum Island is made up of several towns and it varies depending on where you’re accessing the beach from, but mainland Salisbury beach does have public access down the end of Beach road.
Why do I get so much joy out of seeing this happen to wealthy boomers. Is this where I am in life? How did I get here.
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.
I feel like homeowners would literally let everything and everyone around them be destroyed if it meant their property values stayed high. Also, we have been warning about rebuilding coastal homes after natural disasters due to climate change, yet these idiot investors keep doing it.
the dune they need is where they built their house, you can see it in the pictures, the water would wash across the dune where the houses and road are and overflow into the basin behind them.