“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
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
The piece missing is that unless exposed to critical thinking in education religious organisations will fill the void with blind faith. I’d bet a 1000 in whatever currency you’d prefer that these chuckle-fucks are praying for god to save them from the rising water levels.
The current most likely path is 2.5 degrees Celsius global temperature increase which will lead to water shortages, crop failure, and at least a billion dead globally from food collapse, and possibly millions will be killed from regional wars and the massacre of climate migrants; eco-fascist authoritarianism is now likely to be the political reality for the next 100 years.
Sorry, best thing to do is follow the old advice:
“Hope and fight for the best, plan and prepare for the worst.”
Yeah I know, seems like there’s so much going wrong these days and so little a person can do about it. Tho I’d prefer looking the disasters head on instead of ignoring them so they can sneak up on me later.