See an American town that's about to be completely lost to climate change.

[eridani]

http://www.upworthy.com/see-an-american-town-thats-about-to-be-completely-lost-to-climate-change?c=upw1

The Jean Charles band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw have lived in the same place for more than 200 years.

The tribe's oral history has it that a Frenchman named Jean Marie Naquin married a Native American woman named Pauline Verdin in the early 1800s — and that Mr. Naquin's parents didn't take too kindly to their child's mixed marriage.

The couple fled this familial wrath and settled on Isle de Jean Charles, a narrow inlet in the Louisiana bayou near Terrebonne Parish, about 11 miles off the mainland. The couple was soon joined by several other Native American families and this small community of indigenous Cajuns has lived there ever since...
until now...

By the middle of the 20th century, there were nearly 400 people living on the island. At that point, the land was 11 miles long and five miles wide — providing this Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe with 55 square miles of lush, open land on which to hunt, farm, and thrive.

[mountain grammy]

1. one way or another, the most vulnerable will be affected first.

Good story. At least the feds are providing some relief, but the beginning of the end.

[Yo_Mama]

2. LA bayou land losses are not really caused by climate change.

They are caused primarily, if not entirely, by land usage changes, including the damming of the Mississippi and channels carved in to service industries.

http://www.mississippiriverdelta.org/discover-the-delta/what-went-wrong/

[eridani]

3. Rising seal levels exacerbate all of that n/t