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Sandy wiped out a lot of beach and Governor Chris Christie is determined to rebuild all of his Jersey Shore, even if it is bad for the environment. "I don't believe in a state like ours, where the Jersey Shore is such a part of life, that you just pick up and walk away," he said in a briefing last night. While we understand this deep appreciation for the beach, the environmentalists make a good point: Remaking the beaches is bad for the planet. And do we really want to do that since maybe doing things that are bad for Earth is what got us into this? Also, with climate change a comin' (already here?), we can expect more storms like this, say a lot of people, so perhaps making a replica of life pre-Sandy isn't the best tactic.

Sandy washed away a good chunk of beaches all along the coast, but Jersey was hit exceptionally hard, as this before and after photo below, from the Associated Press, shows. To get the coastline looking as delightfully sandy as it looked before Sandy, the beach will undergo a replenishment process called "dredging," which involves using a pipe to siphon sand and put it on the shore.