Yes. I remember back in the 80s, before Global Warming was a hot topic (fear of a coming Ice Age was still sort of a thing). At that time, there was a lot of talk of “beach erosion”. And that is actually a real topic. Winds and waves do eat at the shoreline. The coast changes. Always has. Always will. Erosion is not a myth. But, today, people see erosion, and islands in estuaries coming and going and they just say, “We must deindustrialize. All of this climate change is out fault.” I find it unbearably stupid.
But it is a similar problem as islands in the Mississippi River. These were coming and going with tne annual floods and rains before people became the problem.
In my 60+ years memories of visits to Hatteras island, I now can feel where I am in space but the place is unrecognizable. I can’t stand among the dunes where we once camped........ they are not there.
I can’t navigate by the light house because it has been moved out of danger from the tides. The Cape point stretches off in a much longer curved existence.
I sit on the porch of the Buxton motel where the waves are breaking literally at my feet.
A visit to the camp ground is a truly erie feeling. Where you are isn’t where you were
To get to Buxton, one must first cross the new moved Oregon Inlet bridge to the Pea Island. For the years of my memory, Pea Island didn’t exist because it is really an extension of Hatteras Island.
Now days, It is very nearly an island again because the separation is prevented only by the heroic efforts of the Park service building huge dunes and constant work on the road. The Pea Island that was is certainly going to be again
Also waste water discharge can eat away at islands that have reefs. But then they bury those reports and go back to Climate Change.