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New Orleans sits below sea level & oceans are projected to rise due to anthropogenic global warming. Should they move?
by beambot 7y ago
New Orleans sits below sea level & oceans are projected to rise due to anthropogenic global warming. Should they move?
- garmaine 7y agoThe Dutch aren't moving.
- giardini 7y agoThey should, they really should. It's just "spitting into the wind" to live anywhere that is below sea level and near a coastline. Flooding is Nature's way of telling you to move. Sure we admire their ingenuity and hard-work ethic and how they recovered the land from the sea but that same energy probably could have been applied with more productive results somewhere else. Look what the Mormons have done with Utah. Maybe the Dutch could have done something similar with Montana (or even Minnesota). I'm certain they would have done a better job with San Francisco than we've done.
- pjlegato 7y agoThey did make a place called "New Amsterdam" that turned out pretty well.
- linkregister 7y agoThe Mormons fled to Utah after facing extermination in Missouri.
- shiftpgdn 7y agoNew Orleans lost more than half of it's population after Hurricane Katrina. So yes, people are moving.