‘There is no great master plan’: anxiety as UK homes, roads and railways sink into the sea

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/23/uk-homes-roads-railways-sink-into-the-sea

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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 75d

just 11 miles up the coast, innovative solutions have been used to hold back the tide and protect the Bacton gas terminal, which supplies a third of UK gas.

Protecting the cause of the problem.

Overspark@piefed.social · 2 pts · 74d

As a Dutch person it is completely incomprehensible that the UK just... lets this happen. And it's not a new thing, this has been going on for at least decades.