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The blogosphere is holding this thing called Blog Action Day today. Thousands of bloggers around the world are writing about the environment.
Well, Cape May, NJ is on the environmental frontline.
Not only are we at the nexus for bird and butterfly migration in eastern North America, we’re just a few feet above sea level and just a few yards away from the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
While others talk about rising sea level in abstract numbers, we see our beaches getting nibbled at each year by the incoming waves.
Today, a minor inconvenience.
Tomorrow? We don’t like to think too much about that here.
This is the oldest seashore resort in the United States. We’ve weathered many, many storms. Yes, we lost part of a town years ago, after one very ferocious storm. South Cape May now sleeps with the fishes.
But real estate is too sought after and too expensive these days to imagine losing another inch. It just can’t happen.
Here, right on the frontline, we forget there’s a battle to fight.