Originally published October 15 2005
Theorists claim that rebuilding New Orleans is unfeasible
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Some theorists are fighting to leave New Orleans underwater, claiming that the geological foundations of the city are deteriorating, making the city (even rebuilt) a sinking ship.
The President of the United States of America has announced in a theatrically heroic manner that New Orleans will be rebuilt.
At first blush, what he has proposed seems like a nice idea.
Hurricanes are only a small part of the threats destroying the city.
New Orleans was built at the site of the old "French Quarter" on the high ground adjacent to the Mississippi river.
This, together with the work of the US Army Corps of Engineers, produced what is functionally the largest ocean port on earth.
The Mississippi River is ocean draft in the channel half way to Memphis Tennessee even at the lowest water times.
What had been predicted to be 4 to 6 feet of floodwater was nearly 20 feet in places.
For those who think that the USA has a problem with energy now, they have no imagination as to what the problem will be when there are 300,000,000 more people in just 35 years.
Continuing to watch the oil industry slurp down an area of about 40,000 square miles along the southern coast of the USA is not an option.
If the true cost of land subsidence were being factored in to the price of oil, we would all soon see that it is uneconomic to continue to deplete this resource at this pace.
This, in addition to the problems from accelerated Global Warming due to greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
Subsidence due to oil and gas extraction is historically documented and ongoing damage can be confidently declared to be fact.
Many new principles and technologies have already been proposed, researched, designed, and in some cases even patented, but have been held back by lack of funding.
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