The <em>Times-Picayune</em> Predicts the Future, Again

In 2002, New Orleans' only daily ran a series that predicted the chilling results of a major hurricane hitting the Crescent City. It was not pretty, but it was not what actually happened in 2005, when a less-than-ultimate storm sideswiped the city, but the hurricane protection system gave way. Now the paper takes on the bigger issue of vanishing wetlands in Louisiana in a five-part series running this week. As some commenters to my posts have consistently pointed out, it's foolish to build a better levee system without a serious, expensive, systematic commitment to restoring the wetlands that have disappeared, basically, on our watch. Somebody ginned up the political support for federal money to "rebuild the Everglades", so the job of ginning up the political support for rebuilding the Louisiana wetlands could well start with people reading this series.