Saltwater intrusion, the result of subsidence, sea-level rise, erosion and a relentless succession of hurricanes and tropical storms has accelerated the decay http://nyti.ms/2GFYgph pic.twitter.com/gqHnPoBFYu
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In addition to the effects of climate change, human engineering has contributed broadly to the losses of wetlands in Louisiana http://nyti.ms/2GFYgph pic.twitter.com/LQV251Jx60
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Louisiana’s “working coast” is dotted with communities that may not outlast the people who currently live there: Cocodrie, Delacroix, Dulac, Grand Isle, Isle de Jean Charles, Kraemer, Leeville, Paradis, Pointe-aux-Chenes, Venice and Jean Lafitte http://nyti.ms/2GFYgph pic.twitter.com/KO65xl56w2
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The question for Lafitte, as for many coastal areas across the globe, is less whether it will succumb than when — and to what degree scarce public resources should be invested in artificially extending its life http://nyti.ms/2GFYgph pic.twitter.com/kWxQ9hQh4m
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It might seem counterintuitive to keep building on land that is submerging. The mayor had a plan: Secure so much public investment for Lafitte that it would become too valuable to abandon. In 10 years, he had built an auditorium, a library, a museum, a baseball park and more.pic.twitter.com/bemZXVQthC
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This special report about the ecological crisis facing Louisiana’s vanishing coast, and the people who live there, is the product of a partnership between The New York Times and
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But climate change isn’t real guys because it snowed in NYC a couple weeks ago. So there...I just debunked your science.
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I will one up you! We had 2 snowstorms in Atlanta this year, one of 5”!
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Thanks for covering this important story!
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Have a tough time feeling sorry for people who deny the science behind why the land is disappearing below their feet.
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Some of us are properly educated and realize that climate change and evolution are real. Sadly our GOP reps in DC keep voting to grab all the oil possible and do nothing to move us out of the 1800s.
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Went fishing with an elderly gentleman in 2004 who would point to open water telling us where land used to be
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Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global averagehttps://m.phys.org/news/2017-03-louisiana-wetlands-struggling-sea-level-global.html …
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Nothing more American than expressing area measurements in "football field lengths"... could have said 25 acres disappear every 5 mins, the reaction would be "Yawn". Say "1 football fields in 100 mins" - they say "it's called weather, always been like that"! Amirite, Mr Pruitt?
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But our “Genius” leader says there is no Climate change.
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There was a rogue Jindal white/black gov'nor who never cared to plan stopping it
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Bobby Jindal...he thinks he knows everything.
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Agreed but grey matter was absent
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