Dear Senator / Representative:

Please elevate the problem faced by our most critically challenged metropolitan area, New Orleans.

Southern Louisiana is facing 7 to 23 feet of sea level rise and the loss of three-quarters of its remaining coastal wetlands, which will cause the shoreline to migrate as much as 60 miles inland.

Compounding the sea level threat, New Orleans is sinking at the rate of one to two inches per year.

Even if factors contributing to rising sea levels were to magically stop today, New Orleans would still become an island within generations.

Rather than investing in more levees that will merely postpone (maybe) the inevitable, political leaders of all stripes should be supporting and encouraging a complete revamping of the New Orleans area.

It is impossible to keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.

We must begin tackling climate change impacts.

Throughout history, cities have relocated. Save New Orleans and all of its cultural history by moving the parts that can be saved and encouraging people to relocate.

I love New Orleans, but in my lifetime, I will see it disappear. Save what can be saved.

#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #NewOrleans #ClimateCrisis