A common theme of environmental fear-mongering is an insistence that the ordinary functions of nature are somehow a marker of the end of the world thanks to human activity. Granted, humans have done damage to God’s creation, especially at the zenith of the Industrial Revolution, but nothing close to the apocalyptic predictions of rabid environmentalists. If the environment is going along its natural course, there’s not much we humans can do about it, as the residents of one Massachusetts beach town have quickly learned. After the residents of Salisbury Beach pooled their resources and spent ab…