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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
It IS entirely true. New Orleans is sinking regardless of human activity, and it will continue to do so. The sea levels are rising and will continue to rise for the foreseeable future. Saying that New Orleans faces no imminent threat other than natural disaster is like saying that a person would probably live a long life if they don't' befall an accident or disease other than the fact that they will expire from old age someday. In the grand scheme of things, say a couple of hundred years, New Orleans will have to be abandoned unless they want to spend tens of billions of dollars in the largest engineering project in human history to protect it.
Here is just one link where you cann read about it, there are many more.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...w-orleans.html |
Yeah, that's an article from 2 years ago, from before they reevaluated the levee's and assessed engineering as the fault.
A person WILL probably live a long life id they don't befall an accident or get a deisease. That didn't even make any sense.
I lived there for 5 years, had multiple business there and visit many times a year. It's going to take more than an outdated opinion on national geographic to change my mind about it.