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login. if his negative time continues and we don't do anything about it, the speech might not be here much longer like yourself. portugal is desperately trying to fight back any human struggle against nature. the authorities replenishing the sand on the beaches and building protective barriers with citizens getting politically involved to fight it. at the threat comes, if a nearer striking fear into the hearts of the residence, we'll make them pass the thief flooded into our house by the water was smashing against the wall and everything was shaking. we were really afraid to move me and 3 quarters of the portuguese population beat by the coast. what can they do in the sea becomes the enemy. how a people could pin with the threat. and how is the association with

vito cache is a fisherman for generations. his family have been running a coastal village business in the region of available on the portuguese atlantic coast. murray, a default to not virgin mary of fatima is the name of the boat veto and his colleagues take out to sea. but the fisherman's working conditions, a getting worse to ship them. 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. and people xanda love you the law . i don't do it for the money. delicious. you barely or anything, melodies ration van ramos. it's about live. i'm passionate about the of you, the feel,

but you earned very little miss me today to see is calm and the week is mind good conditions for the men in their boat. but coastal fishing has become increasingly difficult over the years. small fishman barely make a living from a catch to see had was guaranteed a modest income. to day many fishermen do on social transfers and subsidies and seems a getting even more difficult to to climate change. stronger currents and coastal erosion quote is the fisherman from the muddy defact im

talk to later beach still offers plenty of space. the vito's boat and the fisherman's equipment, but other beaches have already been swallowed up by the c. o for around an hour, vito's true using their net. it's a disappointing catch. only if you macro and sardines and a handful of save room and fuel tanks. 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. it would have been up gimme a little while yet. it was practically no sandy beach left there anymore. yet not even enough room for a beach towel and all that while else. but now imagine putting a boat here, reset it all kind of fishing and ish. maurice, where i live,

is on the verge of extinction. was bomb. it is william. well, it 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, bun hunting. any other part of the country's coastline is as endangered as a puleo. in the north of portugal, the development fills fishermen. adriano rivera with dread adriano mostly makes a living from squid fishing. the sand june still offer some protection but they are under immense pressure.

thanks ingram, they sink ones as though net ella nava. i'm 55 years old, alabama show me this june, used to be here more or less, a zona. now daughter, ella l. afternoon lackey. elena, my show mans rocky and now look around 8 meters of san june. have disappeared in the last few years. i didn't start it just there and nobody's doing anything about it. my daughter. in as far as another pass ashbury, it's just a matter of time before the water reaches the road, my sheep were pumped. it's terrible. and what didn't give me that it was just, i'm gonna keep your 1st novel yes, momentum was really to see advancing like this and with sea level was rising here. everyone 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 governments 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 in task which doesn't really hold back the sea. on the contrary, morn will houses of fallen victim to the high tide, especially in winter. ah, close fly is the sheet motto, coolio around 30 seafood. restaurants are located directly on the coastal road

behind the jews. the restaurant icon 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 brand as acute acute head 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. mr. journey will watch for a while. it's about jack was also in the other restaurants in the neighbourhood router, but at least $80.00 to $100.00 jobs will be affected. then there are around $300.00 jobs that would be indirectly affect. i think that's the bakeries letting the fishermen and agriculture local do my article, dora, most loyal restaurant owner of the viet, a few let down by the authorities. as an alternative, he's demanding that a new food mile be built further away from the silver. he shows adrena the spot not the only issue, the key is spotless to look at. this big plot of land is not being used to provide 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. essays get as a yes, a 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 if you can, 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 will, please give surf here that i shall thank or why would i make a living from tourism here from surfing the judge. i live from the passion i have for water and the sea. a 2nd for my. the party cannot get a minute bite. the shut potash every day. every year the advance of the sea is getting worse and it's economically leaving me behind her voice to grok, wherever they shiprock. what are the brief few. this used to be a very popular beach in said the former, 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. dow surfing lessons take place with the beach is still wide enough around one kilometer away from the center of food, a dot o 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 costa, the secretary of state response of 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 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 isn't as good as that as it was i 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 mad. directly in front of the si, fi, camille. this was the entrance. nottingham was room. there was one door facing a c. i. but we kept it locked or seen that we only use the back door as it other the key valley. oh, 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 are pulling up. that 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 pant. i'm barbara a, the management wouldn't then veto, also, schumann 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 more. we lived in miserable conditions before he knew mcgowan diaz got reviewed in emulator, that goes

a key him up and look the bathroom. now we have a shower where and going buffy back. then we only had a wash base any him without her right now, at least we have the basics for my children. the answers properly to 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 would be my one thing is certainly the sea level will continue to rise as one of the consequences of climate change a lot in the 6 years between 195820 t. portugal lost 1300 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 after them or

mine. portrait 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 z man. so like when we gather the sand from off shore, brian gets in the account on their son in law school 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. the mantra will 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 pumps costs hundreds of thousands alone the whoops were observed with the 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. gloria vienna gala on what is a giant wave comes the sand will be washed away again wildly. what is they do? it was on the jail slid the no, it won't let the nash the over the tubes will stay here permanently. a kish fool eugene via even hannah when we need to replenish the sandy is don't be we'll

just move it back here. let's see that it got together, but i years a thought that regard of the link rather the vida rocky, the blue pick up on monday. okay, so we are prepared to put them on a boat, but with the granular. yes, absolutely. right now you just the sand with, but underneath we have submerged biodegradable pipes in 3 layers that are 300 meters long with the sequel that is called 3 isn't bad is that of next year we're planning to replenish more than 3000000 cubic meters on the so al beaches always have enough sand that there is music med school be to that i yep. a 3rd barrario but the broad of the year is but i use your point of view. the empty, the kid i to est results in portugal are doing more and more to prevent the beaches from disappearing into the say 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. my mother surf instructed, joelle is skeptical and takes his students on an environmental to la at the beach community. who were those rocks? are there used to be dunes a few years ago with small flowers and i'm still doesn't martinez? i was forcing us, but all that vegetation was lost with the advance of the see me. all of us will. my he 2nd broke up on the sand. the government keeps replenishing here cannot replace the noun, whispers because millions of euro's general he, he was last your launch euros. was his having, i don't think it's going to work. the city will continue to advance as the earth gets warmer, smith. yeah, causes all of his new stuff st. george

shows his students, the damage which is almost daily along the beach from an odd but at mid market. look at how the c attacks the stone wall over product your theme. 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 by 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 affected by the problem. while, when you are give you that market limited look what i recorded last winter at exactly the same spot in place. but as you manage to little, the can look at this avenue here. so instead of neither fidel, up to the music,

you know, well, capital, the water is hitting this cafe, fostering the whole terrace, the people dips them. dr. fit for the rest of it was just wiped out at the kettle and then the telephone the last for another week. sorry for the week or to go to your mac up into funny. got keep it. but i often there's, there's feathers was it was rocks you see here from the stone malware, so for 40 meters away with a batch of 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,

he speaks told 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 use to live here. i will keep they were seriously affected by the rising senior governor, ga. gov m. yes. oh, thank god, things are better. no, no good. after that, we'll do it as the others. i'm one of the what he will keep fighting for you today and tomorrow. law you but i'm a yeah, i get one vote for t shirt. you're the best that this done as well. oh, this local collection is all about the best concepts to protect to residents and the homes from the scene about the other day. it would have you been down here yet? hello, no. let's go to where our friend, our daughter lives, as it has a villa. with the way,

boy. oh oh, what a key that plays a miss ramirez here on ish, moorish beach and families lived in constant fear, especially in the winter. the baron was one of the central government robin promised money for will settlement back underwriting $80.00. was that when you bought this money never came over. good. oh no. we built the necessary homes ourselves with money from local. the concentration 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 x ray. hello. yes, i can confirm that arturo have faith over your wish. that late the election campaign event ends in social housing settlement. bo elisa, good hope, the residence here a happy that they no longer live behind the crumbling jeans by the sea, but in

a new or safer homes room. 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 bodies. if we win the election, gonna continue our re settlement program of it and building our neighborhood right over there. ok, st. present old to le, packed up in a pulley and the mood is considerably more pessimistic. than an ash maurice, the news has arrived for the government in lisbon is serious about tearing down the restaurants on the june's. the hope is that this will allow the nat, june, 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 not here. marty applause bullied, fema 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 on the 4th floor, my right to the fire, my suggestion we that of a humble fisherman who has lived here his whole life away. they haven't got that. 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'll resume very opposite of you. adriano 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. nike 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 my name. excellent. well i don't see. i'll 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 protect the do. what aggressors could, i would agree to anything that is all the good of these communities. but in the

meantime, i no longer have faith in for this, and so all i've heard is, is lip service. and are you all 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 the atlanta is fighting to save his home town, but he in a poodle in particular, it seems that humans have lost their fight against nature. experts say that coastal erosion is an existential threat to portugal coast. it's the catastrophe of the century. for the country, it's people and they will have fly ah,

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