The Coast of Louisiana Is Sinking. Here's a Billion-Dollar Plan to Save It

摘要

With the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on the horizon next summer, the federal and local governments, which got everything desperately wrong-to the tune of 1,833 livesand $108 billion lost-now have a chance to get something right.¶ If they do, Louisiana could become a leading exporter of science and engineering skills desperately needed by coastal communities from the Jersey Shore to the Mekong Delta. If they don't, millions of Gulf residents, the bulk of the nation's offshore oil and gas production, most of our seafood production, and a shipping corridor ferrying half of all U.S. imports will be at risk of drowning in storm surges.