New Orleans Past 'Point of No Return,' Residents Warned to Start Relocating
Researchers say levees and pumps can only delay the inevitable, and urge officials to start relocating the most vulnerable communities now.
- A study published Monday in Nature Sustainability warns that New Orleans must immediately begin planning a gradual, permanent evacuation to avert a dangerously rushed exodus, as the city has passed a 'point of no return' on climate-driven sea-level rise.
- Southern Louisiana faces between 3 and 7 meters of sea-level rise and has lost about 2,000 square miles of land since the 1930s, with the state continuing to lose a football field's worth every 100 minutes.
- Tulane University climate expert Jesse Keenan said 'New Orleans is in a terminal state,' noting there is 'no amount of money' that can 'keep an island situated below sea level afloat' in a city home to roughly 360,000 people.
- Yale School of the Environment professor Brianna Castro asked 'What kind of retreat do you want?' arguing that incentivizing migration prevents an uncoordinated, crisis-driven exodus where people are forced to leave abruptly.
- By 2100, rising seas could displace hundreds of millions globally, with around 13 million Americans living in coastal areas potentially forced to relocate to higher ground by the century's end.
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der Standard DESeveral factors make the city on the Gulf of Mexico the most threatened coastal zone in the world. According to new analyses, the "point of no return" has already been exceeded
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