City Split On Beach
In my local newspaper this week the headline article was “City Split On Beach”. The article describes the discussion at council on the best way to deal with the current erosion at the sand depleted Watermans Beach.
While I’m sure the jury is out on whether we want to relate this directly to climate change and rising sea levels — it struck me that we will see more of these types of articles as the affects of climate change increase their emerging speed.
In many ways there is no easy answer to dealing with coastal erosion, but as a Perth loving company we recognise this will be one of the imminent climate change adaptation issues we need to deal with. We are engaged with a number of clients looking at adaptation strategy and our primary advice here is to begin the planning process early. It will be much better to review risks and mitigation now, rather than having too many situations where there is a “City Split On Beach”.
