In melbourne australia, we have been preserving our beaches with rocks forever, at least since the 1930's. We were losing 20m every 10 years, not 10m per year.
I dont think this is a new concept.
The greatest decline occurred during the social media era, when most kids were taught about how to avoid alcohol and drug use. I guess social media is useful.
Russian media has continually repeats all the "terror" attacks that ukraine has committed on russian soil. The ones ukraine boasts about, and the ones ukraine denies any responsability.
If you read the article, it says they didn't do Anything except force them to do energy efficient and safe housing upgrades. So Denmark actually failed.
This is unsurprising given that china is ocd about money(wealth) leaving china mainland.
The trick to remember is that china had set up government run shopping or purchasing unions, that allow everyone to buy things cheaper, but only Chinese products.
The Chinese government regularly boasts that Chinese citizens effectively earn 20% more due to these unions, and describe it like capital gains that will help everyone year on year.