re: NYT: Editorial on Climate Change and Louisiana

These editorials are counter-productive because they distract from the real causes of Louisiana’s coastal erosion issues: subsidence and starving of sediment deposition.

If climate change were the issue, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida would all be seeing the same land loss issues, but they’re not. The problem is levees, locks, and dams, not fossil fuels, and focusing on climate change as the cause ensures solutions to the real causes go unaddressed and unfunded.

If sea level rise from global warming is true, there is no hope for the sinking land. There is only abandonment to the ocean.

It’s not true. The problem is subsidence. The solution is rebuilding deltas and marsh, the problem is money, the Jones Act (prevents foreign firms like the dutch from engaging in dredge or fill work), and the Army Corp of Engineers.