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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Rachel Keenan

‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea

Rachel Keenan looks out at a colourful sky at dusk on the coast of Inverbervie.
‘We have already lost so much’ … Rachel Keenan as a teenager, on the Inverbervie coast. Photograph: Supplied image

A decade ago, on my friend’s birthday, we took a huge tent and stayed the night at our local campsite. We laughed as we put the tent up where the grass met the shingle beach, the sunshine glistening on the water, the sound of the waves scraping the stones. I remember a night of ghost stories, teenage gossip and chasing each other with seaweed.

But the land where we pitched our tent is no longer there. It’s somewhere in the North Sea.

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