flacaltenn
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- Jun 9, 2011
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Thank you President Obama (two-term, President). He gets what happens when you add together relentless pillaging of the environment by the extraction industries and the resultant climate change
Resettling the First American ‘Climate Refugees’
For over a century, the American Indians on the island fished, hunted, trapped and farmed among the lush banana and pecan trees that once spread out for acres. But since 1955, more than 90 percent of the island’s original land mass has washed away. Channels cut by loggers and oil companies eroded much of the island, and decades of flood control efforts have kept once free-flowing rivers from replenishing the wetlands’ sediments. Some of the island was swept away by hurricanes.
What little remains will eventually be inundated as burning fossil fuels melt polar ice sheets and drive up sea levels, projected the National Climate Assessment, a report of 13 federal agencies that highlighted the Isle de Jean Charles and its tribal residents as among the nation’s most vulnerable.
Discuss.....
You did this topic 3 or 4 weeks ago and abandoned the thread then. You suppose it will be different this time?? That island is not disappearing from "climate change".. It's disappearing BY DESIGN of the Army Corps of Engineers.. When you protect cities on the banks of the river by building levees and controllable flood plains -- tiny islands in the MIDDLE OF THE CHANNEL ---- go bye-bye...
Lord -- the left has so little knowledge of how things actually work -- it's easy to impress them with folklore and sad stories... .