Posted: Mar 14, 2016 1:03 pm
Scot Dutchy wrote:Sendraks wrote:The Holderness coastline has been one of the fastest disappearing coastlines in Europe for centuries and it isn't a manmade problem. It is not a new problem. Furthermore, if you understood anything about the coastal erosion of Holderness, you'd also know that much of the eroded material winds up on the Lincolnshire and Anglian coastlines.
Once again cant be bothered to read.
I did read. Evidently you did not understand my response. Shall I use smaller words?
Scot Dutchy wrote:[Licensed by the Department of the Environment, eight different companies are currently operating 2,000 to 8,000 ton dredgers on our offshore sand banks. They extract the sand and gravel as a highly profitable commercial enterprise, sucking up all the base sediment and the life forms they support, returning the unprofitable fine choking silt back to the sea. Not only does this exploitation create a marine desert devoid of all sea life in the dredged area, but it also smothers a further vast area of living seabed many miles down tide. It equates to having the topsoil of one’s garden stripped, so killing the complex ecosystem and denying the likelihood of its regeneration for many future years.
Well managed?
I don't believe it is well managed and that makes marine preserves, like the ones off the coasts of Cornwall and Devon, more important. However, what you've quoted here isn't about the erosion of the Holderness coast, which as I've stated is not a man made problem, as every GCSE student should now.
If your point is that the UK also participates in the destruction of environments, no one is going to argue you with. But then, no one came into this thread rubbishing other nations whilst claiming that "such things wouldn't happen in the UK" - so I'm really not sure where you think you're going with this.