From a human point of view, the ultimate dilemma of the Coast is its transitory nature. By building homes and lives around the Coast, we seek stability where there is none. It is the conflict between a financial economy that seeks permanence in its structures and investments and a natural economy that has none to give. We live on the shore rather than with it. jetties, seawalls, homes on stilts, ditching, dredging, and filling only postpone the inevitable changes that must occur in the Coast and how we live there.
