Vanishing
Island
New
Orleans and Miami are gone. By 2030, all of current Southwest Florida
will be a part of the ocean. Louisiana Governor Bobby
Jindal
recently signed a bill explicitly making it impossible for New
Orleans officials to sue oil companies for the damage done to the
wet-lands drilling and creating pipelines to get oil out. When New
Orleans was first built by the French, these wetlands provided a
buffer between the city and the gulf of Mexico that made life in New
Orleans possible. Without spending billions to restore the wet-lands,
New Orleans will be gone even a few years before Miami. Bobby Gindal
runs for re-election this year. He will almost certainly be
re-elected in spite of having signed the death warrant for New
Orleans. Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban raised in Miami, is also a
climate change denier. Cubans, for reasons I do not understand,
prefer holding tangible assets like land and houses to holding stocks
and bonds. When Southwest Florida goes away, so will much of that
community’s wealth.
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