Mother Nature (WRATH)

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LEFT TO LOUISIANA’S TIDES,
A VILLAGE FIGHTS FOR TIME
For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the
sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.

By KEVIN SACK and JOHN SCHWARTZ Photographs by WILLIAM WIDMERFEB. 24, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/24/us/jean-lafitte-floodwaters.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Quite the piece in the NYT today. In 50 years the town will be underwater.

State planners believe another 2,000 square miles, or even double that, could be overtaken in 50 years as the land sinks, canals widen and sea levels rise because of climate change. Recent studies show that glacial melting is accelerating in Antarctica and Greenland, driving sea level rise on the Gulf Coast.

Although the recession of Louisiana's coast has slowed somewhat this decade, a football field’s worth of wetlands still vanishes every 100 minutes, according to the United States Geological Survey. That is one of the highest rates on the planet, accounting for 90 percent of such losses in the continental United States.