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.
chickens home roosting, leopards eating faces etc
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Yeah, that’s totally going to happen.
It will, whether it’s planned or not. :/
The flood will happen but the city will be just as unprepared as the last time and it certainly won’t be relocated.
that city never even recovered from the last hurricane , like 30% of the houses in the area have tarps on the roofs
