| Preservation of all safe coastlines is vital to sustaining coastal ecologies
crucial to our future global survival. Insightful planning lets people
live along coastlines while harmoniously preserving their crucial ecosystems. |
There is no reason why people cannot enjoy our beautiful coastlines, and
live along them in harmony with nature, wildlife, and industry, while still
preserving the natural ecologies of our coastlines, which are crucial to
our future survival.
We depend on them for fishing and other natural resources, our rainfall,
climate moderation and balance, cleaning our polluted lands, for fresh
water, salt, and an underwater ecology that has been the underpinnings
of civilization since it began.
At right, an ocean-going freight liner delivers our essential produce while
seagulls wait offshore for fish, and the complex reef ecology beyond goes
on while people enjoy their beaches. This is how it should be, and could
be anywhere in the world.
Only thoughtless populations, and conflict between selfish people and regulatory
agencies, prohibit what could be perfectly harmonious balances of multiple
uses. But some coastlines are too hostile or already too toxified to sustain
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Severe coastal storms, such as at left, make it difficult if not impossible
to preserve the ecologic balance of the coastline, and man's interaction
with it. People, determined to build right at the water's edge, not
only upset the natural beach ecology, but lack foresight, because severe
storms and hurricanes destroy their investment, impact the national economy,
and work against a sensible interaction with coastlines.
Left center is Galveston, Texas after hurricane Ike. What was a seafood restaurant on a pier and seaside shops
lining the beach promenade, are now reduced to rubble from a single natural event. People are determined to
rebuild, but their stubbornness, fighting the repeated forces of nature, only cost lives and affect the entire country --
your tax dollars pay these people to go back and experience it all over again!
Coastal parts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida
and SC will be hit repeatedly by tropical hurricanes, just as Pacific sites
like Java, Indonesia and other coastlines in the tropical Pacific will
be hit repeatedly by devastating Cyclones -- it is all part of our planet's
atmospheric circulation, and it cannot be stopped. So why repeatedly
build in or try to restore the coastal ecologies of places that will be
obliterated every few years by powerful storms? It doesn't make sense,
and it is a huge waste of money.
Also, the entire east Texas coast has been irreparably polluted by oil
effluent from major oil refineries in the Gulf. The near-shore ocean
from Galveston to south Pardre Island and beyond has permanent oil scum,
and the froth constantly washes up onto the beaches (left). This
southeast-Texas coastal ecology is not recoverable at present, and may
never be, so it is a waste of time and money to try to preserve it.
Intelligent and insightful Coastal Preservation projects need to identify those coastlines, such as the southeast U.S.,
which are either too "unsafe" or already too polluted to attempt to restore and preserve. Monetary efforts
that would be totally wasted, or wiped away by the next hurricane, can be better invested into coastlines and coastal
ecologies that are "safe", and that can be preserved for everyone's benefit. There are so many other coastal
ecologies impacted by man's incursions that need help right now. |
| Preserving Valuable Coastal Ecologies in Harmony with People |
One of those magnificent coastlines is the western U.S. coasts of California,
Oregon, etc. The beauty is stable, not ravaged by hurricanes, and
absolutely crucial to the total ecology of the northern Pacific. Whales
depend on it for food, migration, breeding, and life, as do porpoises,
dolphins, seals, salmon, seaweed, and numerous other species that are integral
to a crucial coastal ecology that keeps life on our planet repopulating.
Environmental awareness is now preserving relatively unpopulated parts
of the west coast above water, but industrial and human pollution continues
to impair the unseen part below the waves, where unique ecologies are detrimentally
impacted daily. The biggest problem is in the populous coastal regions,
around San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, etc, and from Santa Barbara south
to San Diego -- fully 1/3rd of the coastline.
In the latter region, especially near Malibu, the California Coastal Commission
(CCC) is deadlocked in a power struggle with landowners, who claim the
right to build along the coast responsibly, but the CCC is usurping their
right with overbearing regulations. |
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As this battle of "CCC vs. Malibu residents" moves into its second
decade, both sides of it have forgotten the true victim of this selfish
fight -- the aquatic ecology of the coastline. The CCC could work
with residents on joint projects to restore beaches, enlarge beach sands
and recreational areas, cut pollution of the ocean, improve the near-shore
aquatic ecology, and rebuild habitats to encourage dolphins, whales, seals,
fish and shellfish to frequent and repopulate the coastline for everyone's
benefit -- and the coastal ecosystem's benefit.
Instead, the CCC ignores the ocean ecology, and fights people over surficial land issues, and rare land
animals (mountain lions?). This supposed environmental agency seems too ignorant to know how to rebuild,
preserve and better California's coastal ecology in ways to benefit every person, animal and plant -- they lack
any real understanding of "whole coastal ecology". Consequently, they have done nothing to
regenerate coastal ecosystems that will let seals, dolphin, whales and all sea flora and fauna bound back.
They have done nothing to renew and enlarge the beach ecologies, so as to benefit all people and aquatic life alike. |
Malibu residents aren't much better -- reclusive, suspicious, unwilling
to consider new solutions (preferring to fight problems) -- their own egos,
saying "we know everything", have robbed them of enjoying a much
better life, ecology, environment, and beachfront.
PC Research sent coastal-ecology world experts to assess their situation
5 years ago, and saw crowded $3M to $10M beachfront homes with essentially
no beach in front of them, no buffer for coastal storms, no way to enjoy
their coast, and no ocean wildlife to experience daily. We saw $20M
to $200M mansions perched precariously on rapidly eroding cliff faces,
with no beach fronts to buffer storms or cliff erosion, no enhanced beach
to enjoy, and no ocean wildlife to experience. The rich and affluent are
living at the coast, but can't really enjoy their coast -- confined to
the limits of their own houses.
We sent letters to every celebrity and affluent Malibu resident, offering
new initiatives to benefit everyone with a better ecology, wider more beautiful
beaches, protection from storms and loss, and greater enjoyment of their
region, while benefiting the coastline. Their response? Absolutely zero! None would
support a nonprofit organization who could allay fighting,
via innovative strategies to benefit all people, rebuild the coastline,
prosper the ecology, and restore aquatic wildlife across the entire coastal
ecosystem.
Despite the Malibu snub, we still feel obligated to help, wherever the special abilities, superior knowledge,
and unique insights of our leading experts can benefit all people in any region, using strategies that are
known from world experience to work superbly. In the Malibu region, there is a very valuable coastal ecosystem
to preserve. Despite the inability of CCC employees to understand how people and nature can harmonize to
create an enhanced and thriving coastal ecosystem, we know exactly how to do it. |
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The California Coastal Solution
The greatest impediment to coastal preservation and enhancement in California
seems to be the California Coastal Commission -- ironically, since they
are supposed to be "the" environmental agency "protecting"
the coast. In reality, they are paralyzing Coastal Preservation efforts
by trying to "freeze" the coastal environment in time to its
present, very degraded state, instead of restoring it back to the vibrant ecosystem that existed along
the West Coast 80 to 100 years ago. They have no vision or understanding
of how to do this, they don't know how to restore the coastline holistically,
they don't know how to restore the aquatic ecosystem, they don't know how
to harmoniously interface progressive human development with the coastal
ecologies, so as to enhance them to their original state before the recent
decades of progressive degradation.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to relegate the California Coastal
Commission to a secondary role, not the primary leadership role in Coastal
Preservation, since they have no whole-ecology vision for the future of
Coastal California. That leadership role needs to be assigned to
an organization like PC Research, with the right solutions to restore and
preserve the coast of California to a vibrant coastal ecosystem that benefits
aquatic wildlife, fauna, flora, people, development, recreation and industry
in peaceful, harmonious coexistence. Let Malibu be the test site, since
there is more at stake there than elsewhere. When our strategies
are proven viable and successful in Malibu, to everyone's delight, then
the CCC can apply our successful strategies to the rest of California.
By leading major International projects, we show governments and
agencies how to succeed in a crucial site, then let them take it from there.
This is THE solution for Coastal California, the one that will make all residents
delighted and exuberant over their new-found enjoyment, and one that rebuilds
the Coastal Ecology to a thriving, vibrant ecosystem.
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The U.S. Gulf Coast proves it is not possible to have polluting industries
near the coast without contaminating a major portion of the coastal ecosystem,
right? Wrong! The oil refinery at left is within 1/2 mile of a beautiful coastline,
yet has not polluted the coastal ecosystem in over 60 years. It is
in another country, of course! U.S. industries could do likewise,
they just don't want to go to the effort. At least California recognizes
the need to control coastal pollution from industries, but few other states
do. How long before they all wake up? Only by following a working
example will they realize how it can easily be done.
There is no reason why less polluting industries that are essential to
our lifestyles can not exist near the coast, and yet not pollute the coastal
ecosystem. Great attention needs to be paid to all effluent entering
the aquatic ecosystem, so it can be cleaned or diverted as needed. Not
all surficial runoff is bad for the ocean; only a wide breadth of experience
internationally and in the long term, can teach what is not detrimental
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There is also no reason why homes can't be built at the coast in perfect harmony with the coastal ecosystem, and without impacting the aquatic portion of that ecosystem. It all depends on whether it is done intelligently. At right, homes perched on solid rock above the ocean are guaranteed safety in times of strong storms, and in no way affect preservation of the coastal ecology. Beachfront homes right at the water (e.g. Malibu picture above) potentially impact coastal ecologies. At the west Coast, it is just a matter of growing the beaches, to make adequate storm-front buffers. But along the S.E. coast, where hurricanes cause major ocean contamination, homes and industries need to be set 1 mile back, leaving the beach front dedicated to recreational community parklands.
How to accomplish such necessary commonsense balances, using natural ecological methods, seems beyond the
knowledge of U.S. regulatory agencies like the California Coastal Commission.
For PC Research coastal ecology experts with many countries' experience,
their unique strategies are proven workable, and are second nature to us. |
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Just as important as the aquatic ecology, is the bio-floral ecology of
the coastline, which can offer beauty, stability, retention, replenishment
and environmental cleanliness to the ecosystem. California's native flora
used to be grass and shrubs that fed yearly wildfires along the coast.
The CCC is forcing residents back to this incendiary grass-shrub
flora, long after the coastal vegetation has irreversibly changed to a
greener and ecologically better tree-rich fauna ... then they wonder why
Malibu homes are devastated by grass-fed wildfires each year? Duh!
What does it take to realize that wildfire flora is incompatible
with development? The new tree rich flora is better for the coastal
ecology in every way.
Insightful whole-earth-ocean ecologic leadership is what the California
coast needs to go forward into the future -- intelligent plans for man
to harmoniously coexist with, and enjoy, our vibrant, dynamic coastal ecosystem
-- not visionless regulations that freeze the coastline at its present,
imbalanced, degraded and unworkable condition. |
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A first-time opportunity for all California Coastal residents to enjoy
a greatly enhanced coastal ecology -- better and larger beaches, better
protection from storms and cliff erosion, more stable slopes and fewer
mud slides, more privacy, better safety from wildfires, and more native
aquatic wildlife along the coastline -- in short, all the best attributes
of the California coast enhanced and in harmony with new development.
Plus, a one-time-only second chance for Malibu --
support our coastal preservation project NOW!
Malibu residents can help themselves in two ways -- (1) First, those who know Arnold Schwarzenegger personally, ask him to read this page, and convince him of the need to enhance and preserve your coast in a way that is realistic and workable for the region. States can assign organizations to spearhead new development projects with no conflict of interest, in the best interests of the people -- they do this all over the world, and California can do the same -- the end result will be a glowing example for the future of all California coastlines.
(2) This time, donate generously to our leading project to benefit the entire coast of California.
Click here to see why all Celebrities
and Malibu residents should support U.S. nonprofits helping the U.S., rather than overseas projects of dubious worth, almost certain to fail.
Then donate generously to our non-profit organization, which is dedicated
to helping people throughout the U.S. enjoy better lifestyles, a better
economy, and freedom from dependence on foreign interests, like middle
East oil, which is crippling our economy. If you all gave to PC Research
just 1/100th of what has gone to other far-off pursuits, you would see
astonishing benefits come back to all U.S. citizens.
Other Californians enjoying the coasts -- there is just as much reason
for you to donate to our Coastal Preservation project for California and
eventually other states, as there is for Malibu residents to vigorously
support this leading project. We see Malibu as only the test bed
-- when people see how successful our innovative plans and unique strategies
are in that location, we are confident that all other parts of California
will adopt the same blueprint for Coastal Preservation, lifestyle betterment,
and for everyone's greater enjoyment of the coast.
Without your support, PC Research cannot accomplish these objectives to
benefit you and all people in California. World experts who are leaders
in insightful planning for coastal ecologies expect to be paid well for
their unique strategies that only they can deliver. Our Coastal Preservation
project will cost about $10M to spearhead, but the outcome will be worth
100's of times that to present and future California.
If you value your coastline, and want to see it the best it will ever be
for everyone, then DONATE GENEROUSLY NOW to PC Research.
When we have reached our threshold support for this project, we're off
and running, and you will see just how much can be accomplished.
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