You are obviously one of the 1%!
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I went to Virginia Beach. We stayed in a hotel on the beach. The Atlantic Ocean was a short trot across the “boardwalk” and sand.
I was there again this year. The same hotels are still there, with some new ones lining the same beach.
The Atlantic Ocean is still where it was in the 1960s. The same beach is still there. The same dunes. The same boardwalk. The same sand. The same crabs. The same cigarette butts. The same tacky and vulgar t-shirt shops. It’s all there in the same place.
The oceans are not rising. And if they were, we would simply move the hotels from Atlantic Ave back to Pacific Ave or Baltic Ave or to Hampton, as needed.
You are obviously one of the 1%!
While I wholey believe the anthropomorphic global warming theory is crap.. The earth cools and warms naturally and has for millions of years, you are either in a period of warming or cooling, and nothing humans do has any significant impact on this it is the result of forces far beyond our control.. and by that I mean COSMIC forces, not even earth controlled forces.
Now, as to commercial beaches, erosion is a fact of life on any beach, most modern commercial beaches in the south in particular are rebuilt constantly by dredging.. they pump sand from the bottom of the sea back up to the beach to replenish it after storms or ongoing erosion. Beach will always exist but beaches are constantly shifting when left to their own accords.
I watched more than 100 yards of beach just up and disappear from 1 hurricane alone, and annual shifts of tens of yards of beach annually without this sort of event. Dredging was initiated there to rebuild the beaches every year from the natural events.
Just because something looks the same now as it did 50 years ago does not mean human intervention didn’t help make it so. Once there is an economic motivation to stop erosion, dredging is commonly employed.
Here is a quick proof of my point:
http://rigell.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=312643