A Perilous Future

[madmatt621]

From the National Geographic Magazine:

The sinking city faces rising waters and stronger hurricanes, protected only by dwindling wetlands and flawed levees. Yet people are trickling back to the place they call home, rebuilding in harm's way.


Now...I ask you posters...


Should New Orleans rebuild?



Quotes from National Geographic Magazine regarding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina:

"We simply lack the capacity to protect New Orleans."
-Robert Giegengack, University of Pennsylvania

"Floods are 'acts of God'. But flood losses are largely acts of man."
-Gilbert F. White, Geographer, 1942

"If we don't close MGRO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet), it might be time to do what my wife says and move to Kansas."
-John Lopez, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

"This is a place where people shouldn't be living, yet we're here."
-Roy Dokka, Louisiana State University

"We have to recognize that global warming is part of our future, sea level rise is part of our future."
-Ivor Van Heerden, Louisiana State University

"There are people who will fight to the death to stay here."
-Oliver Houck, Tulane University