What is NOT a viable long-term solution to reducing the effects of beach erosion?

a. ?Learn to live with actively eroding beaches, rather than fighting natural processes.
b. ?Move buildings and roads back from the beach after storms.
c. ?Remove old dams on rivers feeding sand to the beach.
d. ?Stabilize sea cliffs, so they don’t collapse onto beaches.
e. ?Move cliff-top houses back from the cliffs to let cliffs erode.


ANSWER: d

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