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   kcarruthers (kcarruthers@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 20:12:18 JST kcarruthers

   From the #LeopardsEatingFaces files: Seaside town devastated by storm erosion struggles to find suitable fix

   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-13/wamberal-seawall-plan-review-government-erosion-solution/102211926

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     AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 20:28:06 JST AJ Sadauskas

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     @kcarruthers So let me get this straight.

     They don't want a price on carbon.

     They want a sea wall to protect their clifftop mansions from sea erosion.

     They want that wall to be vertical, to preserve as much of their privately-owned beaches as possible.

     But they also don't want the sea wall that protects their mansions to be ugly, like the one in Collaroy, because they're NIMBYs who want to maximise their property prices.

     Despite not wanting a price on carbon, they want either the local or state government to build and maintain the beautiful vertical seawall on their private land that protects their clifftop mansions and their private beaches from erosion.

     But the local council and the state government aren't paying, and they refuse to pay for it themselves.

     So instead of building a beautiful seawall, or even a functional seawall like Collaroy, they're letting their mansions slowly fall into the sea.

     ...

     Anyone have a Nurofen?

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     AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 21:15:27 JST AJ Sadauskas

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     • DragonFlame

     @RHW @kcarruthers "Unsurpassed ocean views", I think, is the term they use in the real estate business...

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     kcarruthers (kcarruthers@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 21:15:28 JST kcarruthers

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     • AJ Sadauskas

     @ajsadauskas yes

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     DragonFlame (rhw@mastodon.au)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 21:15:28 JST DragonFlame

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     • AJ Sadauskas

     @kcarruthers @ajsadauskas
     Nobody in their right mind is going to buy their mansions anyway, so why bother to build a seawall? Even that will have a limited life and need constant expensive maintenance.

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     bigiain (bigiain@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 13:45:10 JST bigiain

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     @RHW @kcarruthers @ajsadauskas You’ve seen the Sydney real estate market, right? There are many many people “not in their right mind” buying the most ludicrous properties…

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     DragonFlame (rhw@mastodon.au)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 13:45:10 JST DragonFlame

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     • bigiain

     @bigiain @kcarruthers @ajsadauskas
     Wondering if those eroded mansions will be used as a huge capital loss write-off ?

     I am genuinely sorry if families are losing their only home & it will be a terrible financial loss. But truly, soil erosion on coastal property has been apparent for at least last fifty years. The climate change accelerated it drastically, but why did they not consider it in first place?