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trend continues and we don't do anything about it. this beach might not be here much longer like yourself. portugal is desperately trying to fight back in a human struggle against nature. the authorities replenishing the sand on the beaches and building protective barriers with citizens to getting politically involved to fight it. at the threat comes in europe, striking fear into the hearts of the residence or mighty government, passed the thief, flooded into our house by the water was smashing against the wall and everything was shaken. we were really afraid to move me 3 quarters of the portuguese population by the coast. what can they do in the sea becomes the enemy. how a people coping with the threat? and how with the authorities in the government rating?

ah ah, he took a she had a is a fisherman for generations. his family have been running a coastal village business in the region of available on the portuguese atlantic coast. maria default and not virgin mary of fatima is the name of the boat. vito and his colleagues take out to sea, but the fisherman's working conditions, a getting worse to ship. simply alma said, i'm always connected to the sea and have been for a long time global. i you? i've been living this life for over 40 years now. did people xanda love you the law? i don't do it for the money. delicious. you barely earned anything nowadays flashing bomb of look, it's about life and passionate met the the feel, but you aren't very little skin

ah, today to see is calm and the wind is mind. could conditions for the men in their boat. but coastal fishing has become increasingly difficult over the years. small fishermen barely make a living from they catch the sea. it was guaranteed a modest income to day. many fishermen live on social transfers and some cities and scenes of getting even more difficult to to climate change from the currents and coastal erosion. what is the fisherman from the muddy defact him?

to let a beach still offers plenty of space, the vessels boat and the fisherman's equipment, but other beaches of already been swallowed up by the sea. muzzle round. now vito's crew using their net. it's a disappointing catch. only a few mackerel and sardines and a handful of c brim and kilten gribble. the region around forever has long been considered a good fishing location. but then the problem started. vito can no longer fish where he lives. 30 kilometers up the coast or whatever that gimme a little while. yeah. that was practically no sandy beach left there anymore. yeah . not even enough room for a beach towel, candle what, what else? but now imagine putting a boat here, re says, own cloud fishing, and it's maurice, where i live, is on the verge of extinction. was from it is william. vomit won't but

vito doesn't want to give up yet. along almost the entire western coast of portugal, the sea is swallowing up sandy beaches in june's threatening, entire villages. but county, any other part of the country's coastline is as endangered as a puleo. in the north was portugal. the development fills fishermen. adriano rivera with dread adriano mostly makes a living from squid fishing. the san june still offer some protection, but there under immense pressure.

thank you. seen graham facing guaymas. as to luna ls nova. i'm 55 years old. alabama. my show me on this june used to be here more or less or not. now daughter l m l afternoon ocoee olivia, my show mans rocky and now look around 8 meters of san june. have disappeared in the last few years. i read and stuff just there and nobody's doing anything about it. and that's not daughter. in as far as another pass ashbury, it's just a matter of time before the water reaches the road, my sheep without the it's terrible and what didn't give me that it was just, i'm going to get your 1st novel uhm. yes, momentum was really to see advancing like did and with sea level was rising here every one is just talking about defending the host and is only one thing we can do to move back as far as publish. good to be on. has them the most important thing to

do is to get rid of the stone break, florida over there as quickly as possible, put on. it's one of the government's building measures and it has made everything was found out of the wall is what caused all the erosion in the area. we need to take it out and do something for the june, so we can protect these places of what since nobody else was taking action. adriano and his neighbors have been putting down sand saxon wooden stakes for years to protect the jews and houses assist me in task which doesn't really hold back the seat. on the contrary, morn will houses of fallen victim to the high tide, especially in winter. ah, close fly is the sheed. my little coolio around 30 seafood restaurants are located directly on the coastal road behind the jews. the restaurant i cabana is one of

them. fishermen, adriano supplies, the restaurant was fish several times a week or you are doing some delicious little sod. aids are good and freshly cordova. oh, what i also have a few. c basil. a few small c. bram is a cute, a guilty bream and a sole direct from the sea and uphill. we annual gang a kilowatt hour, boyer. but increasingly, adriano has to listen to the restaurant owners worries and fears about the future. the sea is threatening to swallow up the food mile and people are saying that the local city council wants to tear down the restaurants for safety reasons. yet gastronomy is the cornerstone of the whole regions economy. a

district journey will watch for a while. it's about jack was also in the other restaurants in the neighbourhood crowds, at least $80.00 to $100.00 jobs will be affected. then there are around $300.00 jobs that would be indirectly affected. the bakeries letting the fishermen and agriculture local do my article, dora most no more restaurant, owner of the viet as feels let down by the authorities. as an alternative, he's demanding that a new food mile be built for through i from the silver. he shows adrena to spot not the only issue with the geek squad wish to look at this big plot of land is not being used. it would be the ideal place for new restaurants that could be built higher up lesser we still have a view of the c rockville. why should double be so mad at over and it would be a big project, an ideal solution face get?

yes, it would be a good solution for a full year and we would all benefit from it. otherwise, i'd like, instead of leaving room is about that everything should just be demolished. that would mean the end of the livelihoods of abil vieira and the other restaurant to is in a puleo as well as this supplies for the daughter of beach formerly asserting hot spot is also getting smaller and small . the by the year and the surfing is f trickier where they used to be sent and june's there are now large blocks of granite to protect the town. ah, juwal pollo runs the search camp in full doodle and is very worried. every morning he prepares his equipment, a surfing camp is his greatest question. he's afraid to housing his sport and has

business if you would please give surf here that i shall thank or why would i make a living from tourism here from surfing lodge? i live from the passion i have for water and the sea. a 2nd for my. the party cannot get the main bite, the shuttle for trash every day. every year the advance of the sea is getting worse and it's economically leaving me behind her voice broke wherever they shiprock. what are the brief few. this used to be a very popular ph, said the foreman, and now people just end up going to other places, better for surfing bush and all the mile, which is terrifying for me and my staff. and without these he said school is still going well. 20 young people have registered his weekend course. 2 hours surfing lessons take place with the beach is still wide enough

around one kilometer away from the center of food at all. he has the hassle of transporting all his equipment and the way they is getting longer . with that he says what will happen if the beach disappears completely? lisbon, portugal coastline and the problems of coastal erosion of the responsibility of the central government. in ish koster, the secretary of state response. also the issue in the environment industry is aware of the problems for her protecting the coast is portugal biggest environmental policy challenge. over 1000000000 euros have been spent on the protection of seaside towns and beaches. in the last 10 years might look exhausted

. caroll logs down these nidia. nice that else about more than hard protective structures. the jalap of you. it's about social factors about people, yoga. when i look at pictures from a puleo, yeah, i have to say it is very difficult to attitude with comply. we may have to abandon places like these because the safety of the inhabitants is at stake, the what they're going to die. gossips ism, it is what i said as it was in the environmental ministry. they now know that expensive construction measures and not able to protect all places from the sea in his hometown of as maricia fisherman veto is fighting for survival. he's been politically active in his local community for years as a mediator between the town council and the affected residents until recently. carla santos. she lived with her children in a house directly behind this wall. ah,

me as it at my house was here. my directly in front of the si, fi, camille. this was the entrance. nottingham was room there was one door facing i see . but we kept it locked or seen, that we only use the back door as it has the key valley who might have it the see has gotten more difficult over the years. but apple, so i started leaving my house from that way shopping. i could put a lien dasa you them, you guys a bullying. let sounds like a dangerous situation as if you didn't. no, no, not. and we didn't have a chance, was se so it was very difficult to pick up the children. when the tide was high, garza especially in the winter if you could go down to sleep number dampen, but the tides were to bear county found that m w a, the management would. and then vito also schuman and politician, accompanies the family to their new home. it's quite close by just 300 meters in

land in a newly built settlement. carla santos and her daughters recently moved into this settlement, built by the town council. vito accompanied the project from the very beginning yesterday but i am only. oh he, this is our new home or it doesn't rain in both of them. davis wacked, my daughters now each have their own bedroom and i have a double room. your wife, redeem, gathered my phrase by means of your own. i would never have thought that i would have a room to myself. no d m o. we lived in miserable conditions before he knew mcgowan diaz got reviewed in a me a letter that goes a key envelope and look in the bathroom. now we have

a shower, where everyone, garcia, back then we only had a wash base id and without her right now at least we have the basics for my children. the answers properly could beach a few minutes drive from lisbon, with the wrench to meet the secretary of state from the environmental ministry here . any safety measures have been taken here in recent years. and what was i said that we knew robin might it like one thing? one thing is certainly the sea level will continue to rise as one of the consequences of climate change. you'll often in the 6 years between 1958 and 20 t portugal last 3rd 100 square kilometers of host leo. that's a lot. do you want? we've already lost too much territory to the sea. he thought it might oper them roman poacher whose coastline is under threat. so what is the central government

doing about this in concrete terms? one of the most expensive measures is beach nourishment, sucking up sand from the sea bed to port back on to the beaches. scoggins, it's the man so live, we gather the sand from off shore. brian gets in the capitol along on there in moscow, and in general, we don't see it being wash crack out to see what it does happen to lack of will patch in this orange dementia. and we'll batch masked boys, whether it's a big investment, but it pays off. we and it will have a cascading effect which allows us to mitigate against further coastal erosion. we meet with the got a fight we can see how beach nourishment looks on the coast of central portugal. a 1000000 cubic meters of sand being sucked up from the sea bed and pulled on to the beach using giant pipes. it's an expensive solution. the diesel to run the comes costs

hundreds of thousands alone. the whoops are observed with a critic lined by the population and by antonio san gabriel finch leader of the small seaside town of south pietro de gala. he inspects the large building size on the beach daily offering answers to the skeptical residence. glory of yellow lawn. what if a giant wave comes the sand will be washed away again, only what he said that was on the jail slid the no, it won't them less than that. the over the tubes will stay here permanently. it gets you gently an evil hand when we need to replenish the sandy's. don't be we'll just move it back here. let's see that it got together. but i years. a thought that

i got out of the length of the water up rocky. the bull pick up on monday. okay, so we are prepared to put them on a boat, but with the gravitas, yes, absolutely. right now you just the sand. but underneath we have submerged biodegradable pipes in 3 layers that are 300 made as long that the sequel is 13 isn't bad at that, but of next year we're planning to replenish more than 3000000 cubic meters on the so al beaches always have enough sand if there is music med school, be to that, are you? but the barrario was the broad la as, but i use the a part of you the empty, the get i to is results in portugal are doing more and more to prevent the beaches from disappearing into the sea for, for, for, for the, for just so that way you can see we used to be dunes. yeah. but now all we have is

rocks and nothing else. no, i must have surf instructed. joe is skeptical and takes his students an environmental to lived the beach community. who were those rocks? are there used to be dunes a few years ago with small flowers and i'm citizen as martinez hellish rosings. but all that vegetation was lost with the advance of the sea. meat of us remark. you 2nd broke up on the sand. the government keeps replenishing here. cannot replace the noun, whispers and costs millions of euro's in. are people that you're going? euro's was a sorry, i don't think it's going to work. my pc will continue to advance as the earth gets warmer smith. yet all of these new stuff st. george shows his students the damage which occurs almost daily along the beach

from an odd but it may take market. look at how the c attacks the stone walls over for the cathy, it's hard to imagine it, but the so can take away these heavy stones and then sadly, it could destroy the 1st line of houses on the beach to cover the place you can reach the my coastal erosion, his central causes, construction blunders, climate change, and population pressures. 3 quarters of the portuguese population lives on the coast and a quarter of the portuguese shoreline is effected by the problem. while when you are give you that my 5th limit, they can look what i recorded last winter at exactly the same spot with both as you message little the can look at this avenue here, really, that of me, the bill. fidel up soon introduced the bill. well, capital,

the water is hitting this cafe of fostering the whole terrace, the people dip to the book. it's a doctor for others if it was just wiped out at the top and then the telephone was for another study for the week or 2 cookie. your mac up into funny, i keep it, but i often mr. smithers because it was rocks you see here from the stone malware. so irma 40 meters away with a batch. unbelievable o. 2 ish lariche, beatrice hometown in the final stages of the local election campaign beetle is standing as voluntary town counseling for the governing social democrats. if he speaks to all the residents personally supported by the local men,

he's made coastal erosion. the key issue, if his election campaign 1st will be ban website. some of the residents we've resettled used to live here looking they were seriously affected by the rising senior alga alga, me, i think god, things are better now to go after that. we'll do it as others with one of the what it will keep fighting for you to day and tomorrow's law you. bye bye. my god. i one vote for t shirt. you're the best that the dallas mode. oh, this local election is all about the best concepts to protect the residents and the homes from the scene a. have you been down here yet? hello. no. let's go to where our friend our daughter lives. because it has a villa. go live right away.

oh, oh, oh, that was a miss ramirez here on ish, moorish beach and families lived in constant fear, especially in the winter of the maryland was one of the central government in latin promised my resettlement backlighting. 80. was that when you bought this money never came over. good. oh no. we built the necessary homes ourselves with money from local. the construction items yoke will be our tour hasn't received in your house yet, but i'm sure he is please for his labors to have been able to move into more healthy work for the 1st week of the 3. huh. yes, i can confirm that. okay, arturo, have faith. why don't we always do that late? the election campaign event ends in social housing settlement. bo alyssa, good hope? the residents here a happy that they no longer live behind the crumbling jeans by the sea, but in a new decipher homes. oh oh wow.

once again, karla santos shows herself as a steadfast funnel at the fisherman and local politician vito. the mood among the campaigns is more cheerful when not everyone believes that the problem of coastal erosion could be sold by building new houses. isn't vanderpool good is puzzled. his step by step. we're finding our way forward, excellent galleys. if we win the election, gonna continue our resettlement program of it and building our neighborhood right over there. ok. st. present, old to le, backed up in a pulley, and the mood is considerably more pessimistic than an esh marie ish. the news has arrived for the government in lisbon is serious about tearing down the restaurants on june's. the hope is that this will allow the nat tune and skate to gradually recover. fishman, adriano feels, let down. he now has his own plan to save the village. he asked an architect to

draw him the model and has been trying to convince his neighbors for weeks as a look at this model concrete break, what it should be submerged into the sea around 300 meters from the coast. mice would help offset the tiles is non. here, marty applause will extreme once yes. what? yes. what about weakening the power of the waves of them? yeah, that will be one possible solution you have is mccoy. zekiel is proudly wrapped ourselves feathers notarized as of if it is up at the portable my right to the for my suggestion we that of a humble fisherman who has lived here his whole life away. they haven't got a yeah. yeah, he, that he'll be there at this good offer letter. we could only be a benefit for the jewish war, but also for the shipment of the sea floor and foreigner. and we fishermen would have more to cash florida will buy one of us through ebay. but the vision looks

like you resume. very opposite of you. i, diana is clinging to his project. he sees an implementation of it soon as the last chance for the fisherman's huts and restaurants other puleo a lot quicker fronting as walk it to the network. i think it would be a relatively cheap letter lesson, which would avoid wasting money back is the other way nikki, as one that you're given. you slash go muscle. so you have to save this place. a lot of village has history and we intend to go mice. ne, excellent, well, i don't see all somebody else. you know, sometimes atlanta can't hide his anger and disappointment at those in pallet, in lisbon, one of whom i would agree of the government took measures to partake in june. what aggressors could, i would agree to anything that is all the good as these communities. but in the meantime, i no longer have identified this and so all i've heard is,

is lip service in a re. well, i don't understand why the government protects all the places, but not out what's different here from other places, get, get the friends and then also me. the others with adriano is fighting to save his home town, but he in a pooty in particular, it seems that humans have lost their fight against nature. experts say that coastal erosion is an existential threat to put trickles coast. it's the catastrophe of the century. for the country, it's people, and they will have life ah ha. a pulse

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