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Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Since the age of the Gold Rush, California has lost approximately 60 percent of its coastal dunes
due primarily to human intervention;
By contrast, Santa Barbara County has lost only 10 percent.
That’s according to a recent study released by the UC Office of the President’s Climate Action Research Initiative with active engagement by nine UCSB researchers. 
Statewide the expansion of urbanization and agriculture has gobbled up roughly 442 square kilometers of coastal…