By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
Residents in the small coastal village of Fairbourne, North Wales, could become “climate refugees”
Some British coastal communities will “inevitably” be forced from their homes as climate change eats away at their shores, the head of England’s Environment Agency (EA) has warned.
Sir James Bevan, the EA’s chief executive, said that climate change means “some of our communities cannot stay where they are”.
He told the Flood and Coast Conference in Telford on Tuesday: “While we can come back safely and build back better after most river flooding, there is no coming back for land that coastal erosion has taken away or which a rising sea level has put permanently or frequently under water.”
Sir James said that this means the “right answer… will have to be to move communities away from danger rather than try to protect them from the inevitable impacts of…
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