Should 'The Big Easy' become 'The Big Wet Lands'?

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I'm not in favor of building up New Orleans. After all, the place is a large salad bowl in the earth's crust. There is no amount of man made construction that can be done to make the city safe enough to stand up to a category 5 hurricane which is what would be needed to satisfy me. Even if there is, I'm not interested in spending that kind of money to do it.

The truth is: Mankind likes to try to try to stand up to Mother Nature. She tears us down and we say, "Ha" and rebuild just to show we are resilient. Well, I'm not interested in losing billions of dollars, again, the next time New Orleans is ruined.

Move New Orleans up the way. It will still be a vibrant city with a uniqueness unparalleled by any other American city, but this time, it will be above sea level.

The American Thinker in a September 6th, 2005 article entitled "New Orleans myths: The numbers tell a different story" writes:

The problem, in a nutshell, is this: the Louisiana coast, its protective fringe of barrier islands and coastal marshlands, is disappearing. Over the last 75 years, 1.9 million acres have vanished. Every year, another 25 square miles, an area roughly the size of Manhattan sinks quietly beneath the waves. In some places, the coastline has receded 15 miles from where it was in the 1920's.

Lets cut our loses and beat street. Clean it up enough so it's not toxic and move out!