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Guardian: Sizewell nuclear power station sits on the Suffolk coast, April 5, 2006. Photograph: Graham Barclay/Getty Images
Geologists take the long view, which can lead to some striking thoughts, and here is one: Britain is shrinking. As the waves crash onto the shores of this island, the rock is worn away or falls off in chunks, and, as the adage goes, they are not making land any more in Britain.
I spoke to Prof Rob Duck, at Dundee University, whose new book is called This Shrinking Land: Climate Change......
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Shrinking Britain will force land to be abandoned to the sea
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