The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.
Ongoing sea level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.
Low-lying southern Louisiana faces multiple threats, with rising sea levels driven by global heating, compounded by strengthening hurricanes, also a feature of the climate crisis, and the gradual subsidence of a coastline that has been carved apart by the oil and gas industry.
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Or, start paying people minimum wage to bail the water back over the levies. Here’s your bucket, you break it you buy a replacement.
3-7 metres of sea-level rise and…the shoreline “to migrate as much as 100km (62 miles) inland”
oof
Louisiana has a populace that are an enigma. You will have people that will in the same sentence speak to how much infrastructure in the state is the result of Huey Long’s policies and none have equaled before or after and then same sentence call him the worst politician to come out of Louisiana. Regardless, as suggested by interviewees in the article, people will as they feel necessary. Work, unlivable land, etc. Disorderly, very likely. Go to New Orleans and you’ll have no trouble finding people that say they’ll never leave. Same with folks living in small towns in wildfire prone lands
