To the Editor:

A recent, widely published picture showed debris from a beachfront house littering the shoreline of the Outer Banks. LBI endured much worse after Sandy. Not too many years ago, a large boat ran aground on the Barnegat Light jetty, sending tons of hull and engine fragments onto the beach. And we are all aware of oil spills washing ashore.

Yet we never would suggest that we get rid of oceanfront houses, offshore boat traffic, oil shipments and so on.

August 21, 2024