According to the U.S.G.S., the state lost just under 1,900 square miles of land between 1932 and 2000. This is the rough equivalent of the entire stateof Delaware dropping into the Gulf of Mexico, and the disappearing act has no closing date. If nothing is done to stop the hemorrhaging, the state predicts as much as another 1,750 square miles of land — an area larger than Rhode Island — will convert to water by 2064. An area approximately the size of a football field continues to slip away every hour.
Amazing long article about the effects of people on Louisiana – from the levees for the Mississippi River to the oil industry to fishing to hurricanes. And how complicated the whole thing is and will be to come to some sort of fix with it. It’s a long read but totally worth it.
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