The problem with Louisiana has always been Louisiana.

I work the rigs based out of Louisiana. This video barely scratches the surface of just how much LA depends on the industry. That being said... Where are our hydrogen cars? Electric 18-wheelers? Solar planes? Ahhhh yeah about that. Without MASSIVE cultural MINDSET changes, we are dealing our own doom every day.

I lived all my life in Louisiana i fish these waters and the oil and gas company done most of this They dug ditches and canals lay pipe lines put dams up put levies down . And when they leave. They stop doing maintenance to those dams and waterway levies. What happens when you stop cutting your grass and maintenance at your home. Now you got the answer THE TRUTH.............

The rerouting of old man river is whats wiping out the delta.

The irony is that the producer of this video AJ+ is owned by the government of Qatar, the world's 2nd largest exporter of natural gas.

Why does the title of the video mention Climate Change when the flooding is the result of constructing canals?

None of these people say anything about land subsidence. With all the oil rigs in Louisiana both on shore and off shore that are pumping oil and gas at the full speed. Thats gonna make the land sink.

The sea isn't rising. The land is just eroding as it always has, just doesn't have the Mississippi River to replenish it. Yes the cuts made by the oil industry has sped the erosion up, but it's not climate gate.

I wonder if we let the Mississippi return to the Atchafalaya, how fast Louisiana coastland would grow. Can't do that though. Nola would be out of business.

What's also sad is that Louisiana has the GDP of a small country, but is last in health, education, etc. These companies do nothing to benefit the land they are poisoning.

The damages from hurricane Katrina was because the levee we're dilapidated and not necessarily the hurricane

The gulf is sinking and will continue to sink. For thousands of years the Mississippi River flooded and meandered while depositing sediment in the gulf. People confined the river to control flooding and improve navigation. The Mississippi River no longer has the means to maintain a constant level. Sediment is washed out to the sea. The Mississippi delta is in poor health. The video did a great job of pointing out what what is happening. Climate change is is such a small part of the problem compared to other human activities around the Mississippi.

A football field of land goes under water every hour on the Louisiana coast ? That's over 6k football fields of land every year! We are suppose to believe that?

3:02: $90 billion dollars needed to protect those wetlands. While the oil industry continues to extract billion$ of profit annually from that region, it will be the taxpayer who forks over that $90 billion. Privatize the profits, socialize the risks

You should really stop saying, "The land is sinking." The ocean is rising and it's important to make sure it's not confused with a local issue. Sometimes semantics matter.

It’s NOT the Oil and Gas industries it’s the River rerouting

most ppl will start doing something about it once it starts affecting them. till then ppl will ignore it besides the ones already being affected.

Nature has the power! Time to start moving out of the area.

I guess Bobby Jindall will be tanning while he can.

You're doing good work Fran!

the key to the problem is not "sea level rise" but ""CANALS DREDGED" your land is slowly sliding into the canals and being dredged...why do you think they have to dredge the canals?

The marsh land in South Louisiana is actually floating. Water makes up a sizable portion of the soil.. I have seen entire sections of marsh, of over a mile wide, move to close a canal , as if it was never there. Once the grass dies because the water is rising or the land is sinking, or both, the depth goes to over 6 foot in a single year. And, with that, the bottom is extremely soft. Something that is never mentioned, but a big problem, is the intrusion of herbicide from the mid west farms. Roundup is a poison which kills plants, including the marsh grasses in south Louisiana. Monsanto (bayer) is a virus that needs to be removed. Environmentalists don'rt seem to care much for some reason though. Oddly, Roundup is not very effective anymore in agriculture. Most areas now have roundup resistant varieties of weeds. Old fashioned cultivation is returning. Using no till has helped. The mulch on the surface helps with weed control and conserves moisture.

At 1:00 the video stated that canals were dug from the ocean going inland and the influx of salt water was killing the marshes. How is digging ditches part of climate change/warming/cooling or whatever the catch phrase of the day is?

I used to fish the bayou allot in the 70's and land just disappeared back then too..... it would disappear from one spot and appear in another spot just down the bayou a ways.... You had to keep your wits about you to not get lost in canals that changed daily!!!!!! And fires?!?!?!?!?! Let me tell you!!!!! The swamp was always burning somewhere or another!!!!!!

Horse manure. Louisiana is disappearing due to overdredging of the Mississippi River, which is now dumping the silt load into deep water. What is needed is to dredge a channel that runs from east to west so that the silt load is distributed in the marshes, and then block the north-south one.

i mean there are other factors at play like how a redirected Mississippi river is no longer depositing sediment in lover Louisiana because it was redirected that contributes to land loss, however climate change is indeed an issue that is at play and that we are dealing with in southern louisiana. (correct me if i am wrong about this info if i got something wrong)

Erosion is not the same as climate change. Sea level rise is insignificant when compared to erosion in Louisiana.

We'll be up to our ears in alligators.

Say what? I live on the gulf near Tampa and the gulf has. Not risen at all where I am

How does 90 billion dollars prevent Mother Nature from happening? If you get rid of all petroleum based structures or refineries, how does that stop rising sea levels?

Yes it is time to take action.

I love people that complain about the use of fossil fuels while continue to work for Exxon or other energy companies and while they continue to drive big pickup trucks and go fishing in their gas guzzling boats. Their motto must be "Do as I say not as I do."

Jindel sure did fuck up Louisiana and gonna have the nerve to try and run for president smh

i live in Slidell then and now only the part near the lake flooded during katrina where he is the part i lived at the time we only had wind damage no flooding at all

Common sense says when I put water in a container It doesn’t Just go to one area Note only Florida and Louisiana is saying it’s water rising But both have limestone as it’s base and water is eroding it away causing sink holes and the ground to sink Cali is having the same issue it’s sinking But that’s because their pulling water out the ground Instead they divert all rain and snow into the ocean and away from man made dams and lakes In turn complain the lakes are drying up see hover dam No if water was rising it would affect every sea side state not just two

Ever heard of Bangladesh?

Its nature telling us to freaking stop

There must be something wrong with your Abdullah oblongata for living in Louisiana. Waterboys going to have to trade his lawnmower in for a motorboat. Louisiana has a great wall at the cost of 5.7 billion dollars but the nation can't get a wall to protect its sovereignty. Maybe the answer to all of our problems is found in the time it took to make this video.

“Corporate social responsibility is thus illegal - at least when it is genuine." (Bakan, The Corporation, Constable, 2004, p.37)

Other places in New Orleans is doomed

A rising sea will make for new waterfront lots. Lots of opportunity for new homes. Anyone know the best places to buy low in order to sell high when the water rises?

0:22. Every hour a football field of land is lost. Dam that's alot

im happy for you guys..

The climate has been changing every since the world was made.

Lack of honesty is the main reason why people dismiss climate change documentaries. Before I watched this video I googled Louisiana and land subsidence. And guess what? The MAIN reason Louisiana is shrinking is because the land is sinking. Not sea level rise. Same thing from a video about Dorchester County, Maryland. In both videos, they touch ever so slightly on land subsidence and overemphasize sea level rising. Why do you guys do this? Why do you mislead so? The "whole picture" is enough to cause concern; you don't have to slant it this badly. You are doing harm to your cause.

The earth is always changing. You can't stop time

now i miss true detective

Sounds like a good area for house boat sales.

There's a lot of issues here they didn't cover like Slidell is affected by subsidence. Some of it man-made and some natural. It sits on a giant hump of clay that used to be held up by quite a bit of water under it that has been pumped out in some places. Other parts of the mass have been slipping into the Gulf of Mexico for at least the last 20,,000 years. Because there's a fault zone formed by the heavy weight of Mississippi River deposits pushing down just offshore which tears land away from softer onshore mounds. It can be argued that this has been made worse by the Mississippi River diversion but to make that point you would have to admit there's no one protecting Louisiana from a lot of different things not just the petro chemical industry.

99.99999percent lands sink oooooo. 1.percent imaginary sea rise

The needa do something bc this land means a lot to us.

This has nothing to do with the Climate

I live across the Bayou from Dulac.

All the people that keep saying “we can’t keep extracting oil and gas” but then they all are in the USA and own cars and consume so much of it. Really ironic. They aren’t even trying to do anything about they are expecting the government to do something.

Mississippi River is levied and controlled so that the delta does not flood which means much need sediment is not being deposited. Sea level rise has contributed what, a few inches?

I need to give a 5-10 sentence summary on this video, can somebody do it for me? lol

If it is any consolation both coasts will feel the rising water too. A football field an hour is nothing to sneeze at though. I feel sorry for all those that are losing what they grew up with. If only we could turn back the hands of time. This land loss can not be called progress.

How many cubic yards of mud flow down the Mississippi? Why not simply divert that mud back into the swamps. Oh, right. That would be too simple.

I also think they, whomever they are, are pulling your leg a bit on the global warming/sea rising plan. The OandG guys are pumping out from underneath and that should account for some of the sinking. It also could be used for a direct fee in reclamation work. So many cubic meters of O&G could represent a few bucks to reload the Delta with new river pumped mud. Do correct me, but I understand that sandbars are a problem all along the river so removing a bit would do little harm.

It’s has nothing to do with rising sea level. It has to do with Louisiana and it’s soil. It’s erosion, subsidence and computation of the soil without silt from frequent Mississippi floods.

I’m all about getting this fixed but make sure to get rid of all the untruths in your videos. All it takes is one (I counted a few) and your opponents will use it to discredit your whole message.

And today, Louisiana's completely disappeared underwater... So sad.

clean the trash up off the bottom of the sea , keep the top soil , sell it to build the land back up , it is good fertilizer , and it will pay for the clean up job , the water will be a lot cleaner , and the water level will drop , ever body will be happy .

Even if it was real, we are just a small part of the problem. Hi India and China....no fix in those countries for a very long time. 1886 pollution.

I do not think anybody disagrees with climate change. Climate change has been occurring for the last 4.5 billion years> Oceans have been rising and falling right through the various Ice Ages which have occurred over time. We are currently coming to the end of the Quaternary Ice Age which has been going for some 2 million years. It has been inter laced with glacials and interglacials. At various stages, as at the end of the most recent glacial approx. 10,000 years ago, the sea rose by about 100 metres. Current monitoring of the oceans show there has been little or no change around the Equator. There has been a rise of about one millimetre a year in the north around the Scandinavian countries. This is not based on modelling but rather is actual measurements. This does not take away from the fact that parts of Louisiana are subsiding. This may mean the sea is rising there BUT it may also mean that the land is actually subsiding as the plates move thus giving the impression that the sea is rising. It is always worrying when we see the end of a species whether it be flora or fauna. Unfortunately, that is the way of the Earth. Species come and go. This can occur slowly or as with the dinosaurs it can occur swiftly. The Chicxulub Crater was made by part of a larger meteor or comet. The explosion would have been equivalent to 2,500 million atomic bombs. It would have wiped out 3/4 of all life on Earth. The heat blast and the tsunami would have done an excellent job of bringing about climatic upheaval. What could governments do about that? Nothing is the answer. Some might argue, that outside of the Tunguska explosion in Siberia in 1908 which was only a meagre 10-15 megatons, we really haven't had a major strike for millions of years. Some might say, given the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, we are surely over due. Forgetting that for the moment and simply looking a your cyclic everyday climate change. Again a great deal of this has to do with the Earth and its axis; the magnetism around the Earth; and finally the Sun. I really don't think there is anything governments can do to deal with these initiators of climate change. Yes we can do more to deal with pollution. I am not sure that stopping fossil fuel electricity is a good idea as many of the original climate activists like Bjorn Lomborg are now saying. His preferred option is now nuclear. He now admits that solar panels and wind turbines cannot do the job. How much money has now been wasted on them? Finally, some of these people are focusing on the root cause of our problem and that is over population. He argues, as do I, that there is a need for family planning in 2019. Unfortunately, this does not sit well with the private enterprise system which requires population growth for a growth in GDP and for the housing market to continue to rise. So there is your true dichotomy. Forget about the climate insanity and work on developing a new economic system ( I certainly do not mean socialism) and start having fewer kids. Who wants to tell Islam this? I don't. Now we know why Europe opened its doors to all those "refugees". It had nothing to do with humanity. It was more to do with economic growth.

Ok I’m not combatting climate change but the coast is sinking because we built levees that increase the amount of erosion at the delta and also carried the land-building sediment off of the continental shelf while our annual floods and storms erode it away. Humans definitely did this but it has to do with our infrastructure. The levy race killed the Mississippi River. One town builds ‘em high, their neighbors build them higher to keep the floodwaters back and that kept going up the river.

It's called Dulac...du lac.... french for lake. It's supposed to be water.

The polar shift has something to do with this I bet.

People are still making excuses!

Climate Change can't be stopped; just impact-reduced with many different adaptations.

So build on a swamp then complain about water levels? Brilliant!..

OIL & GAS COMPANIES DOING THIS SHIT NEED TO BE REIGNED IN!!!

This was premeditated ecocide. Standard practice would have been to require access by going up river and building industrial canals to access fresh water inland reserves. How were the oil companies allowed to dig canals from salt water to fresh water marshes? They should compensate coastal communities for every bit of land lost to this practice and rebuild the wetlands.

Don’t you want more land

Jakarta is sinking and children in India are dying of lung infection because of industrial plants pumping out massive amounts of smoke but AJ+ will never report on that.

Look at the slump areas off the continental shelf. The entire Mississippi delta is gradually sliding down into the gulf. Compare Alexandria, Egypt 365 A.D. to modern day New Orleans.

Good ole propaganda...........there is big money in doing nothing about an issue. Milking people's feelings and emotions for gain.

No it isn’t too a degree

Maybe just maybe the marshlands and the bowl called new Orleans should have never been populated.

The truth is that the land is sinking due to the expansion of the Mississippii River Fault. There are areas along the Louisiana coast where you can actually the land moving in response to the expansion. There is no cure for it. The EPA in New York spent 55 million to reclaim the swamps in Jamaica Bay only to see them sink more in a few years. www.recedingsea.com

Let the bayous flow reconnect to the Mississippi

The causes of the irreversible rising sea levels are not entirely what you believe they are. The interior of the Earth seems to be heating up. Temperatures below the Antarctic continent have risen, causing ice sheet meltoff. Greenland is losing so much glacial runoff that they've completely changed their electricity production from diesel generators to hydro-electric.

its simple ,usa should less spend wa=on war and no invasion to any more muslim countries( msulims r teh friend of teh USA) and invest that money to improve infrastructure against flood and rising water, so simple is it.

I thought that was Nick Saban

1.53 nice chem trail

use solar cell battery and hydrolysis and hydrogen fuel cell combined so oil and gas industry not required for energy

Too bad

This scares me

My home 😓😓😞😞

What a propaganda hit piece !

The earth is changing, everything is changing. Get used to it.

If you turn back to me I will heal your land open your bible

I live six feet below sea level and I can absolutely assure you that I would know if the sea was rising. My Island is surrounded by river at the mouth of the river. The river has two currents one is fresh water that has come down from the mountains the other current is the ocean tide and salt water is more buoyant than freshwater meaning do not bring your loaded to the max sea going vessels into my port . It will be on the bottom as so many others have. Spring time the rain comes in and the snow in the mountains melts as it soaks up the rain and releases massive water all at once . The river is at its highest annual level I can definitely remember much worse years. As a child in the spring rains we would canoe down the roads because the gates can not be opened until the river levels drops . When there is a swell of water coming down the river the military arrives first. They are ready to sand bag the banks.

Whatever! People been saying this since 1997. It's natural and has nothing to do with people. Stop sprouting fact conspiracy theories.

It's a polar shift

So where are the historical photos? If you search the internet you can find pictures from 10 2050 even 100 years ago. Why can't I get comparisons of shorelines when I search Google images? Why are the only things that show up graphs and papers scanned as jpegs and photoshopped predictions of sea level rise? Wouldn't comparisons of photos of shorelines then and now be the simplest way to demonstrate what all of these doomsayers are claiming? Where's the proof that should be so simple to provide?

90 billion for the grand plan, the federal reserve is buying that much in junk debt every month, of course Louisiana's pretty far down on the totem pole, so the answer is to raise taxes high enough so everyone will leave, then let the earth have It's way with Dulac and every other city in its crosshairs.

Considering the disproportionate tax breaks the large oil companies get in Louisiana (compared to tax breaks they get in other states), you'd think the large oil companies would be investing in saving these communities ...but even if they are doing something, it's surely not enough. Giving people jobs is nice, but leaving something better than you find it is the moral thing to do, especially with quantifiable damage. Louisiana should demand a fair tax break situation from these oil companies, and/or demand they invest in long-term solutions to save communities. Any oil company that takes the tax break of (i.e. 99%) and destroys the land but then threatens to take jobs if Louisiana starts demanding tax equity as in other states should be a national disgrace. The tax dollars Louisiana is giving these companies is money taken from the various communities. Look at the youtube "Why Louisiana stays poor."

Louisanalord

This is not climate change . This is business affecting a local area . Please keep it separate .