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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 |
By the way, if you read the article you sent me, it SUPPORTS what I said:
"But many areas, including some of the levees designed to hold back the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, sank at four or five times that rate."
The levee's sink, more water comes in, the city sinks. Fix the levee's that were never built right: "What we found is that some of the levee failures in New Orleans were [in] places where subsidence was highest," and the city has a much better future.