re: #253 SanFranciscoZionist

Oh, totally true. Katrina’s not an example of what would happen if warming became an immediate problem for NA, just a sort of speeded up miniversion. It suggests some of the problems inherent in big groups of people trying to move out of nature’s way in a society like ours.

Not a reasonable comparison. Those displaced by Katrina moved over a period of days, or weeks at the very most. It was the rapidity of the change that caused problems in neighboring regions.

More reasonable comparisons would be the population drain in Detroit - a decline of over a million, representing more than half of the city’s peak population, in a matter of three to four decades; or the migration of huge numbers of people to Phoenix and Las Vegas over the last 20 years or so. The changes in both cases have been profound, to be sure, but nowhere near the catastrophic changes conjured by a comparison with New Orleans.