Life’s a beach, but for how much longer?

There’s trouble in paradise for the beach resorts we’ll want to flock to this winter.

Journalist Sarah Stodola has travelled the world to report on the economic and environmental impacts of beach tourism, with stops in Thailand, Bali, Ibiza and Hawaii to Fiji, Miami Beach, Portugal, Barbados and Cancun.

“I enjoyed the snorkeling and the views, but I found the sanitized bubbles in which resorts existed curious,” says Stodola in her book “The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit and Peril at the Beach.” “To be honest, beach resorts weirded me out a little — their insistence on indolence, and on forgetting the world outside, both the one back home and the one immediately beyond the property.”

Our hothouse Earth is getting impossible for resort owners to forget and ignore. Rising sea levels threaten to wash out beaches, extreme storms are trashing buildings and…