Actually just a sidenote here:
In southeast Louisiana, all the canals they dug created saltwater intrusion, which, wouldnāt be an issue if we hadnāt intervened in other ways.
BUT, since we diverted part of the water of the Mississippi River to protect New Orleans, all of the sediment isnāt reaching the delta to restore what salt water intrusion is eroding.
We disrupted natures ability to heal itself in the name of commerce.
To this day, we lose 2 football fields per year to saltwater intrusion. Our delta was our strongest protection against hurricanes, since they created a land barrier to starve storms of energy before they reached more densely populated areas.
(And since weāve made the climate worse with constant fossil fuel consumption those storms are only getting stronger but thatās a story for another post)
So yeah. Canals kind of doomed New Orleans and most of southeast Louisiana. Grand isle is a shadow of what it once was and a bunch of other smaller communities donāt even exist anymore.
So uh. Yeah. I donāt care if canals are the most efficient foolproof way of transporting cargo. Theyāve fucked up the wetlands of my home in a way we can never truly recover from. Like theyāre TRYING but the state government dumps all the coastal wetland money into oil subsidies instead of restoring what weāve lost.
Because it always comes back to money and āefficiencyā with these people
