How fast is the sea swallowing Britain? | Beyond Borders
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2023
- Norfolk, located on the east coast of the United Kingdom, is losing meters of land to the sea every year, including homes and roads. Should the country retreat or defend? David Foster visits the area to find out.
The coast is NOT disappearing, it is just moving, and it is going to happen anyway, so why build there, and think about what the earth there is made up of.
The same could of been said for the Netherlands coast years ago but they invested in their infrastructure and created an economic benefit from doing so and gained a huge amount of land area regardless of the environmental concerns. Today the environment there has adapted to those changes and flourished both on land and in the sea. Were not thinking big enough.
Dunwich was England’s second port until the sea claimed it in the Middle Ages. The coast has been eroding since England was connected to the continent.
It's happening faster all over the world. We've got rising sea levels and it's never happened this quickly. We have history dating back 50k years and our politicians and idiots don't have a care in the world.
It's only a worry when it hits the rich people and the geese wake up because they can't think for themselves.
Don't forget the water rises over the whole ocean and that's a huge amount of water probably in the trillions or quadrillions of liters of water.
That's scary not our political leaders.
The trouble is one part is protected, another part of the coastline suffers with the increased pounding from the waves. As long as London is OK, the rest does not matter.
Mr london is in prison doing time its called hard slaving for the Packington cos he's ur man
London is a bit far from a coastline is it not. Your comment is ridiculous.
@@AnitaDilLondon is under sea level and has a river which is tidal to the sea running through the middle of it so its not really away from the coast as such
London may be a long way from the sea but it's had millions spent on flood defences over the years. For example, the Thames Barrier, when it was built, it was only ment to be closed occasionally to keep high tides out of London, but now it have to be closed several times a year. A new bigger and better Thames Barrier will have to be built sooner rather than later to replace the existing barrier.
@@bredaquirke7362 that's because it's the capital and was capital of the world
How about a video about the UK is getting NEW coastline?
It’s been eroding and building up in other places for years, nature never stands still.
The richest people complain about sea level rises, then buy houses on the coast…
This is nothing to do with rising sea levels but is natural coastal erosion. I used to go to Happisburgh back in 60s and it was eroding then.
Sadly this was forecast many years ago.
The fact that it's actually happening doesn't really make it any better.
Some of the prolonged periods of rain have been quite staggering when you see how much flooding has occurred.
Lowestoft North beach, is shocking.
Basically all the beach in front of the sea wall has gone.
It was a lovely beach in the 70s, 80s that I remember.
Such a shame, its gone.
The woman thinks too much of bricks and mortar. I would take the money, build myself a little cottage in Portugal and spend Christmases in Austria or Switzerland
£100 billion to take ten minutes off the journey to Birmingham that is the best use of taxpayers money?
yes it could have gone to another tory donor for providing nothing !
I get your point, and I’m not saying it is the best use of money. But the point of high speed rail isn’t to reduce journey times for the people who take the highspeed line, it reduces congestion on the regular lines.
Investing in high spees rail isn’t a problem, but tge horrendous mismanagement, we considerably over payed per mile of track as compared to equivalent high speed rail project in Europe
It erodes one area of the coast, and dumps the nsedement on another area of the coast. As science established decades ago!
This erosion would not happen in the Netherlands and it is predicted that many more properties will suffer in other locations. A Shameful outlook.
This may repeat other comments, but I don't doubt the inhabitants of Dunwich, Old Winchelsea, and other lost towns would have expressed similar views to some of those in the film, and their homes disappeared anyway. Maintaining low lying and vulnerable coastlines will become increasingly difficult and expensive, and painful and unpopular decisions will have to be made. It is part of a natural cycle, although it is accelerating because of climate change. I grew up near Beachy Head, and I have seen an increase in the rate of erosion during my lifetime. At Birling Gap, for example, part of the pub car park I used as a young man has disappeared over the cliff edge, along with some of the old coastguard houses, and if I live long enough, I may see the pub and rest of the houses gone.
I agree. At the end of the day nature will always beat man's efforts. I agree it would be a waste of time and money saving these small towns. Move out and accept the eventuality of what nature will do.
All 100% natural erosion that has always been the same. As long as their is waves and tide it will continue.
Just down the coast when there is a very low tide you can see remains of a forest exposed.
When I was at school in the fifties we were taught that Eastern England was subsiding beneath the sea. In the last ice age there was two miles of ice over Britain and when it melted the Pennines raised and the East Coast sunk and continues to do so at 1/8 inch per year. That equates to 1 foot per century. In my lifetime that is 9 3/8 inches. The only way the East Coast could be saved would be by building a sea wall from beyond Hull to the Thames including a Wash Barrage. How high would this be? Well that is interesting. The projection is that rising sea water levels could amount to 3 ft. The land drops 1 ft per hundred years. The tide rise is 2 ft at Gt Yarmouth bar. These numbers merely keep the numbers,stable there would be no improvement. The sea wall has to prevent the events of 1953 which I remember. So we would have to build a wall possibly 20 to 25 feet high with the footing commensurate. The amount of concrete would take the output of several wind farms for a couple of generations. The sad thing is the pumping of sand from off shore sea bed to build up the beach merely causes the bed to slip back to the hole. That is why to process has been abandoned in some places. Many of the properties up and down this area were old summer holiday residences bought cheap by people who guessed their lives would be shorter than the loss of land. For some that gamble failed. Some claim to have spoken to water engineers but these are people concerned with pipes and drainage. They should have spoken to flood engineers and geologists who look across national boundaries. Will the national community through the government make funds available. Not a chance because you are looking at a tax rate on top of current income tax that neither the government nor the electorate would accept. This subject,has surfaced through my lifetime every 8 to 10 years. The complaints are by incomers who wanted to live under East Anglian skies during retirement and despite enquiry took a gamble to some extent.
There will be some managed retreat; it is already happening and farmland under crop in Essex and Suffolk has been allowed to have the sea flood back into it by reducing the banks to sea level. Architects are providing potential schemes to allow certain areas potential viability for a period where there is sea incursions. Don’t shout about what the Dutch have done because their geology is different. We have been through all the arguments in the last 80 years. The truth is some people will not be told and resent the result of Nature and we know it has been going on from before history was written. If you don’t want erosion stay away from the coast and if you don’t wish to be flooded pick high ground. Some will call that callous but that is what we were taught at school, in Norfolk, in the fifties. It was a State school and they gave us a good education.
What Malcolm Kerby said at 23.43 is utterly correct. By spending absolutely VAST amounts of (taxpayer's) money to defend one small area, all you would achieve is to make that area a peninsular, then an island, and then, in a very short time, the island would be washed away. One CANNOT STOP coastal erosion
Come on Government, 8 million a day being spent on migrants in hotels. Stop the very land crumbling away from the weight of it all & put that money to good urgent use, mend the crumbling shorelines!!
Shell as in Royal Dutch Shell probably has some notion of what to do as well as having the funds and motivation to protect it's interests
By the time our government has wasted money on committees, approval from the environmental surveying to ensure no animals will be affected, half the money is gone and then they will give up saying saying the funds required were not met. Our government is mired in policy and administration
What would over a 100 billion pound have done to protect Britains coastline instead of a quicker train journey? (hs2)
No sympathy for them whatsoever, why build on an eroding coastline Smh
Insurance companies all over the world soon won't be insuring costal houses.
If you live near the coast good luck.
🤦♂️the irony of Shell "helping" fight the impact of how they make their money😂
Excellent Presentation
There's a Coastline, it's not disappearing.
The sea is a formidable part of nature! No arguments 😮
The ocean is taking back the land where it used to be millions of years ago
Excellent broadcast standard video. I feel sorry for the people of Happisburgh and all the other coastal towns and villages that are losing their land to the sea. Blackpool and most of the Fylde Coast would be in a similar situation if £millions haven't been spent on hold the line defences over the years. Blackpool was given £73 million for sea defences in 2013 but have now been given another £118 million for new sea defences. Cleveleys a lovely coastal town north of Blackpool also have been given £millions to upgrade their sea defences over the years. They are currently working on sea defence work on one of their beaches. In fact all along the Fylde Coast £millions have been spent on sea defence and £millions more will be spent on future sea defence work.
The guy from the council should have mentioned the implications for areas further down the coast if Happisburgh was protected by sea defences. It would only exacerbate problems due to lack of sediment. A really challenging and unfortunate situation…
How long before Chichester is claimed by the sea ? A difficult coastline subject and one that should be addressed, well done for your output.
who cares... let nature do its thing.
And London!
I remember back in the 1990's,Lot of the North cost was further out,Lot of its being washed in to sea,Lately,Floods not getting any better
Norfolk would be losing "Metres" of land. Unless you mean that there have been "meters" installed to measure those distances - but are themselves disappearing.
Good luck to her fair play to the sea 👏
How long will it be till they have all gone. Should we start looking to move to a different country
If you go to the other coast, where i was born, Southport, the coast is being reclaimed. Huge areas of former beach are now farmland. It’s just geography. Nothing is going to stop the forces of nature.
Do me a favour, answer the question !! Is this gadger a politician ? They're masters of dodging a straight answer
It's all about the money 🤑💰
We are higher than the sea whereas Holland is lower than the sea. They have it all managed. It’s a shame but very British not to bother.
Imagine hiring national companies from other countries to run the rails and not build the infrastructure we need to survive the next century.
Does anyone know about Harlech castle and the fact that it was right on the sea when built. It is now quite a way inn land.
same as chester, the river used to go right up to chester town when the romans were there.
@@brandmotivoThe city of Chester and the river Dee still flows into the city but the racecourse was built on part of the land which was reclaimed.
Also Berkeley, Gloucs which used to be a port in the medieval period.
@@hendrixinfinity3992 Gloucester was a port until the mid 20th century.
@@chrishartley4553 Gloucester was a port until recently because of the Gloucester and Sharpness canal. Berkeley is 5 miles away from any navigable water.
Manchester is also a port due to a canal.
He WONT ANSWER THE QUESTION !! No they don't care SO sorry for those who have and are losing their homes 🙏
Coastal erosions have been going for centuries here, soft clay...
Get yourself a Pint in the pub while you can its a nice old county pub its still great local pub thats not been messed about, take your kids t walk the cliffs so someone will remember it
You can't hold the sea back wind storms rain people will have to leave and move it happened in sussex houses were going over the cliff it's sad
Try refusing the parasites coming from abroad and putting money into helping OUR country for a fucking change!!
I wonder what the Dutch would do? Do you think they would surrender their land?
Yes the cowards
No they are more competent at managing water and the sea. Rijkswaterstaat!
They would send in the Dykes ...
We don't appear very stable
What the HELL is a "Coastal Manager." I'm just about to apply for a job as a "Lesser-spotted Flycatcher Watcher" on an annual salary of £60,000. .... Do vacancies for coastal managers come up very often ? If I don't get the job of "Lesser-spotted Flycatch Watcher", I would be happy to take a job as "Coastal Manager"
Off Sea Palling there is a man made reef and when viewed on google earth you can see the effects of it on the adjacent coastline.
Go look at parts of Hopton and Corton, the new outer harbour at Gt Yarmouth is destroying them.
1999 government coastal withdrawal bill just meant abandon our coast and people's homes and business to the sea. So where will this line be finally drawn? Especially as government doesn't like spending public money on things that matter, in my opinion? I remember a time, around 1995, when people talked about environmental refugees coming to the UK. Seems we can help them, but not our own people? And I can still remember when the sea breakers were removed, under the guise that these sea defences prevented beach sand moving around our coastline, a natural thing, it was claimed. Yet no one anything about the sand being removed from our coastline to build roads and tall buildings? Which makes me wonder if by removing so much sand, have we managed to speed up costal erosion? So who made money from doing this? Certainly not the people loosing there coastlines and homes?
Surely someone could come up with an idea to break the waves something like they have in north bay Scarborough
There’s an American company that can dig under any house and secure it, then they can drag it inland. Fraction of the cost.
Yeah but most american Houses are lightweight, timber clad structures. Most UK houses are of Brick and mortar construction. Not saying it's impossible, but it would be So much harder in Britain than in the states.
Wood houses, not brick. Idiot
Nowt new east coast eroding in places west coast,go to Southport soon they will have to extend the pier to reach the sea trees where growing on the beach now felled.Seems whole country is tipping after all use to be joined to the continent?
Thing is you can’t prevent nature. When we are a ball of water circulating tides daily rotating you’d think if you lived 1000m from the sea you should have some level of worry. Coastal erosion has existed hundreds of years. We had the dogger hills disappear in the last couple hundred years and will continue to lose land regardless of what we build. You as a person aren’t special. If you looked at Britain 1300 years ago and now you’d appreciate the fact we even still exist in the first place. Coastal lowland is a poor choice for settling full stop. You can’t expect to prevent Mother Nature because you want to sit in your checkered blanket sipping a cup of tea happily. That’s not how it works. Nature will run its course the Holocene epoch will end and we’ll all cook in a sauna before freezing again there isn’t anything we have to offer that can prevent or intervene. Best you can do is educate yourself and embrace it. Exciting times that bit by bit the planet is eroding itself while there’s hundreds of square miles of non affected land still. who ever do you think you are to question something we’ve all latched on to like parasites calling it our own. It’s comical.
We are a small island compared to some other countries so it should be paramount that we save our land from the sea and reclaim what is lost, but as always money is more important!
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When I buy a house I find out the erosion rate of the nearby coasts and river banks. If the property is less than one hundred years worth of erosion away from the coast, I don't buy it. Who would?
They were told that they were over 100 years from erosion.
🤔🤔🤔🤔watching this with interest....i wonder how many old merchant vessels get scrapped , probably overseas, every year. Why not cut off their upper super structures or leave it....fill them with concrete, rubble....land fill and use them as a 'block ship ' as was done to defend harbours in ww1 and ww2......it would take the sea years to destroy these structures.....😊
Bradwell on Sea an Rainham in Essex have old barges Inc concrete ones at Rainham to do just that, and it's cheap solution
The south east is disappearing but the poor north is rising. Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth.
If you build on an eroding coastline, you eventually get what you deserve. Just because you are rich, means you deserve it even more.
I wonder if the woman in the van give her name to the cops?
This is no surprise to the people of Doggerland.
East coast is sinking and west is lifting up contintal sift it is the world moving
King Knut couldn't stop the tides why do fools think that they can?
The coast line can be saved,shell proved it.
Partout dans le monde, toute maison construit pres de la mer disparaitrons a cause de erosion. Ok faut construire dans les Terres.
why the f can MPs never have a can do ,push, positive attitude ! No business would ever exist if entrepreneurs took the same attitude
I have sympathy.
But we can’t just fight the unfightable.
Personally I wouldn’t want to live in a Shell town. And one day that wall will fail too, it doesn’t look that special already.
And it’s interesting it’s not just sea erosion but comes from rain etc and landslides.
All 100% natural erosion that has always been the same. As long as their is waves and tide it will continue.
Moral of the story, don't live or buy beside a coastline 😂
The UK is going to split along the teams and the hull inlet along the Ouse. I've seen this over and over.
Thanks HS2 AND WONT SAME THE COUNTY I WOOD CALL IT COUNTY BUT TO MUCH HAPPENED TO ME TO😢😢😮😢😮😢😮😢
Hmm if I only had the money that the government spend on their expenses i could probably build a couple of mile of defences.🤔 We the people, the government's employers (ish) we would like you to fix Britain's coastline if you don't we'll get somebody else who will👍
I bet if the prime ministers private residence were by the coast theyd find the funding to protect it!! I have always dreamt of living right by the coast, living an idyllic life......until videos like this appears and gives a reminder that the idyllic life unfortunately doesn't last forever. It was said on the video that the section of sand was due to heavy rain on land that had unstable sand and it wasnt the sea that did it. But what unstabled the sand in the first place? Surely that was the sea? So ultimately the sea was to blame!!
Take a look at geological history over the last million years! Nomadic people that lay down fixed monetary roots get upset or surprised!
It has been proven you just push the problem elsewhere, if you want to live near a cliff next yo the sea, do it at your risk
The fact that this programme was run and managed and produced by more foreigners that you can find in a truck in Dover a programme about the English coast being eroded is quite comedy value tbh..... 😂😂😂
Play with nature nature will take it's own course, Don't play with nature
So this Council member guy keeps he was in the excuses about "money" and then he used the excuse about the "environment" the HS2 project is causing and will cause massive irreparable damage to local ecosystems not to mention the amount of pollution involved in the construction (Concrete and steel one of the most polluting products we use).
As for the taxpayers money spent on this project which is massively over budget and parts of it are now being cancelled, I'm sure it could have been used somewhere else instead the coastal erosion of an island the island that we live on would be a good idea 👌
Anywhere not rock is suffering, lots of places are one spring tide plus a bad onshore storm away from disaster .Fancy not mentioning shells role in undermining climate catastrophe response thereby causing extra erosion through inaction .
As someone mentioned earlier the coast is not disappearing but just moving. Government can spend £8 million each day on hotels for non tax payers but for taxpaying joe public who find them selves in an unfortunate position, you are just not worth it
Maybe we could use some of the overseas aid that we give to corrupt governments to help deserving folk like these🎉🎉🎉
Maybe you can stop scapegoating foreigners and get real -corrupt govt and corporate tax dodging parasites are to blame for the lack of money needed for infrastructure
The Rwanda money for example
Doom panic worries fear wow .😅
Shell destroys Nigerian clean water ..
It can be saved, they just want to spend the money elsewhere.
Tell it to the Dutch
Another cop out from another Tory MP.
Trying to control nature
TRT world could also cover the terrible political situation at home, where a fash*ist dictator is in place, discriminating the Kurds and other minorities, biult himself a gigantic palace and built an insanely gigantic airport in biodiverse wetlands.
You loose a house to the sea.... then you buy another, more fool you really
If we are losing our coast line.
Atleast the ilegal imagrants cant land hear
Don't you believe in EvOluTiOn now?
Boring presntation and I stopped watching after 7 minutes
Put those prisoners to work lol
Our coastline is dissapesring under the weight of immegrants an rubber dinghys
Doom and gloom 😂
It wouldn;t be so expensive to create an articifical reef a mile or so off coast, electrify it and let it calcify- become seacrete. it will cost once but last for centuries. It would have the added benefit of providing shelter for young fish, allowing for faster and more sustainable restocking of the fishing grounds. There is also the carbon sequestration (in the form of carbonates).
The vision of the government in this area is too short sighted.
Nothing lasts forever and landscape and shores change. Most of the coastline around Britain amd Ireland is eroding.
Sorry I was enjoying this documentary
BUT the moment you started to interview a councillor 😅😅😅😅
That it ya pissing in the. Wind
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Wasting your time with asking a councillor anything 😂😂😂😂
ah well it happens