Orin Pilkey

But your grand children will. Yes indeed, they will live to see the utter collapse of North Carolina's current coastline and barrier islands. Sooner than you think.

Despite the happy talk of anti-science deniers, it's clear that today's rising sea levels are real, no matter what the cause. It's only a matter of decades before millions of water front structures all around the world lose their footings and yield to the awesome power of the oceans. The resulting environmental disaster will be horrific. Imagine condos, mobile homes, gas stations, shanty towns, oil refineries, port facilities, chemical plants, sewage systems, military bases, and worse, all standing in three feet of toxic water, crumbling into chaos with every rising wave. Flooded streets? We've only just begun.