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To the editor : Maybe this silver lining is a golden opportunity for the California Coastal Commission to reclaim that glorious, unimpeded view along the Pacific Coast Highway for the public in perpetuity ( “Malibu’s post-fire silver lining: a safer Pacific Coast Highway,” Oct. 22). While it is undoubtedly sad and painful for those living at the ocean’s edge to have lost their homes, perhaps it is actually a blessing in disguise.

Most of those structures were shoehorned onto impossibly tiny fragments of sand between the road and the sea, destined to be blasted away by the next vigorous storm generated by the inexorably rising tides of climate change.

Rather than rebuilding the

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