“Louisiana is in a unique position to build expertise and infrastructure that will be the foundation for coming generations,” said co-author Jesse Keenan, the Favrot II Associate Professor in Tulane’s School of Architecture and Built Environment. “Transition planning is not only key to maintaining continuity, but it offers significant economic opportunities, from land-building strategies to renewable energy and new housing development.”
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Being collapse aware is heartbreaking, it means recognizing that New Orleans, one of the most culturally vibrant cities on earth, is dying and will die no matter what we do now.
People understandably don’t want to face that, they want to cling to places like New Orleans and it will only make the collapse that much more devastating.
Louisiana, even more than Florida, is a state of absolute collapse. I can’t imagine how painful it must be to look at a city you love like that and leave for the rest of your life, but sooner or later people will have no choice and it will be better for everyone if they make that choice sooner rather than later when they are more desperate and it may already be too late.
link to open access article…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01820-z
Also see related article
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-louisiana-coast-world-early-climate.html
In Virginia, there’s an island community living in a town called Tangier. It’s highest point is 1.2m above sea level. Since 1850, they have lost 67% of their viable land to inundation and marsh creep. At the current rate, all the land will be subject to daily tidal inundation within 50 years. The population is about 430.
Most, including the Mayor, are climate change deniers, and 88% are Republican voting, up from 85% in 2000. They want government protection to shield their island from rising sea levels.
If this microcosm of society, who can literally watch the effects of climate change out their front windows each day, and see their community change year after year, can’t accept the truth and act upon the evidence before them, what hope is there that any larger community will behave in a coherent and proactive way?
Ignorance and propaganda are a potent mix, capable of making their victims deny reality as it literally washes over them.
tbf, we probably could reclaim that area if the US had idk…a federal government that functioned for more than just funneling $ and children/woman into the claws of oligarchs.
Why must you curse me with this knowledge??
Maybe it just shows obvious, observable facts don’t have an effect. Maybe there’s a peice missing