As another hurricane season barrels towards us in the South, a new article in Nature Sustainability states that New Orleans has reached the "point of no return."
Experts predict Louisiana's coastline will collapse inland by over 62 miles as a result of the climate crisis, rising sea levels, and epic hurricanes, as well as the erosion of environmental laws by the oil and gas industry. Just as New Yorkers need no reminder of their rat infestation, the people of Louisiana are well aware that they live in jeopardy of losing three-quarters of their wetlands, and that their homes sit on the "most physically vulnerable coastal zone in the world." After inputting the data into fancy projection models, the world's