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@pvonhellermannn your post made me wonder what is being done to shore up the resilience of Eastbourne in the face of sea level rise, which led me to https://www.pevenseyandeastbournecoast.co.uk, which in web development terms is a website that loads *nothing* without JavaScript and might therefore be considered anti-resilient.
I hope your community’s defences prove better than that
@urlyman @darkerknight interesting, am clueless about javascript. Thank you for checking! Yes we are a designated “hold the line” zone in the UK shoreline management plan, so some money and planning are going into our defences. Have been for a while - would look very different without! But whether it’s sufficient for what’s to come is another question.
@pvonhellermannn @urlyman
Re JavaScript, you can use this free browser extension (add-on) that will initially block new websites you visit at first visit. You click on its icon (top righjt of browser) and then selectively allow only the javascripts you actually trust.
It takes a little to get to know, but does keep the worst parasites from invading your privacy.
https://noscript.net/
Also try EFF's Privacy Badger.
@pvonhellermannn @darkerknight
I wish you and yours best of luck with it. Courtesy of being in a military city, I get to enjoy asymmetric levels of investment
@urlyman @darkerknight ah! 😄 i was wondering! That’s very interesting, too, I had never really thought about it. My friend Sue recently wrote this piece on Eastbourne, by the way:
https://sussexbylines.co.uk/news/environment/the-sea-is-rising-eastbourne-will-flood/
@pvonhellermannn great article.
My sense is that the earliest systemic pinch point for every low-lying coastal settlement is insurance. Given that leases are typically for 99 years all that is needed for property collapse is for insurers to start to perceive that the probability of flooding within 99 years wipes out their profits…
@pvonhellermannn …But once the value of huge swathes of properties crash, as they most certainly will, bizarre markets then crop up: where cash buyers buy up properties at knock down prices because they can make handsome profits over relatively few years of holiday / AirBnB lets that exceed the value they bought at. Utterly nihilistic
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