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Climate Change.

Where Will Our Land Be In Years To Come?

Take a look at Sandbanks in Dorset. Beautiful, with homes only the super rich can afford but, will it succumb to the ravages of the sea that surround it in the years ahead?

Image courtesy of Dorset Guide (Explore the Beautiful County of Dorset.) Unfortunately for me, I neither hold a pilots license or own a drone, and my ladders aren’t tall enough to take my own aerial view😟!

One of the most beautiful peninsulas I have seen. What’s best, is that my wife and I live only 6-miles away from this place too😊.

However, as with everything else in the world at large -

What are we doing🤷‍♂️?

We are not looking after it⛔.

We are not cherishing it as an area of beauty😞.

We are not preserving it for decades, even centuries, for those that are to be born into our world, living lost after we have passed.

NO🚫.

We are slowly destroying it💢.

The sea is fighting against us.

Sea levels are rising.

It’s down to Climate Change.

It’s our fault.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the answer is a straight YES.

The two major causes of global sea level rise are thermal…

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Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium
Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium

Written by Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium

Psychiatric Nurse Writer. Owner of Creative Passions, The Shortform, No Shame, World of Fiction publications, and co-editor for The Chocolate River.

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