announcer: on this episode of "earth focus," lessons learned rinhurricankatrina e being puto the tt along e coa of louiana. someredict new orlea will be suerged byhe endf this ntury. e regio's svival depds on its abilitto adapt tolimate cnge. if sucssful, lisiana m provide bluepri for oers arou the wor. [filadvance clicki]

cker: tre were milies here.here werkids in e streetlayingootball,ight? therwere nghbors. this house s the cay lady. kids, wwould co down andpend ouruarters d t here this poh and ea and jusenjoy thatmosphe ofthe commity, rig, and thawent ay justvernight it justot washeaway. elicopt whirrin ma: we areeeing sces like th one thrghout thcity. lberman: you rember if y told em thatthe leees had oken? browni don't recall specifally, buit was tt ne orleanss floodi.

waers: no.it. knoed ovethem plas on heir poch lastnight, hh? mis is somupset wi you. couple months o, we haa ran storm,ust a ornary rainstm in soueast louisia. it s one of ose dayshat we tught, "h, just little in," but l and bold, theity flooded.he draine sy was noup to r. tucker: loved hricanes kids. i rememb when thcalm me, we wld play t in the ater. itas just other da o from scol, ght, b now it'terrifyi.

it'terrifyng. lters: ts is not hoax. thiis real.limate cnge is rea so how we liveith it? i think in ts sectn of wn, we're staing to understd that wer and lima changgoes hand in nd. johnsn: new leans ithe la 5 to years hareally ken on great aptation climateesiliencand clate chnge. eletion is e of the maor adaptions thayou sotimes se is thathe hous are raid higher thiis the cter for e sustnable engement a developmt. we ve rain gards here. help mmuniti how to ild rain rdens.e also he a

orchd. you s over he, we have mons. geus one o re. ater katina, yohad all ese toxi from thwater, s tht went io the il, and that's all ov the lower ninth wardnd probay a lot losiana. evintly, th rocess ogoing through the trs to beafruit, idoesn't ome in the fit. al, we commend ove-bed rdens whe you caput fressoil to ve you cps that e not tanted witthat poi. whawe'e trieto do iselp th the cmunity tfirst educate th becausthey ge coused abo, you kn, is climate ange a pitical ise. is iteal? wjust try to ve them the facts.hen trto show how theyan be advates f how we apt to th climate cker: ife don't do methin allhis beau of new orlns thatverybod loves,ourists me down e, the' be loong at juswater. tt's .

willms: the plan we've reled onelieves at we cafight water, d if yo've er been toa beach en the's riptie andou thinyou can ght wate you willearn that ou willose thatattle. waoner: wi a cmate adtation pn, you he a wet stem and dry sysm, so when yoneed tlift wat ou you cado thatbut when you needo let thwater , you n let thwater in though thasystem into ese cans and cculate iaround thcity. willms: i ansome peole might lk pastere andhink, "oh, yea it'just overown grass.no. it's a w-lying area th has certain

vegetatn in it at is th perfecvegetati when yo wanwater tobsorb anbe able to dissipatat a mor grual ratei mean, doesn't loolike a t of natal science,ut ther's a lot o tural sence thagoes int it. ggoner:osts lesto have green frastrucre becau is is l-maintence. thiis a mod of a pa of the city the main drainage basin. you ve an unrground stem, e white lis under e ear. the id was to t the aternto thespipes, tget th watero thespumps d push itut. thatas the thod. williams: uth of t matter is, ere is nway to sve our waterssues wi just ou pumps a turbis. it's not ough. will ner be enough. ggoner:ou know,ecades o ing the wrong ing usuay ki you. wgot our ath rning in005. lliams: thereas a poitical ll to ma sure hat thisity seesnother00

ars, itould mean ving very butiful, very aesetic bleways alg with genys througut the cy, us living with water, so that when that next storm comes, because it's going to come--that's a fact-- that water has a place to go other than your cars and your homes and the street. [film advance clicks] reed: at some point after hurricane katrina, people started get really serious about astal iues, andhey arted tthink abt risk reduion, procting pele fm floodi, togeth with restoraon as onthing th eds to baddresse ando we ca up wi this cotal aster planhich ia listf pjects at havbeen scienticallyetted,nd so we ve projes that ddge marial froone place and t itn anotheplace toctually

buildew marsh where tre' opn watert the mont. on the rk-reductn sidewe hae extensive ries of leveesnd floodtes arou some crical coaal communits. the are procts at wehink wl worknot wok now, b work in the fute. n: this skyla 5478 noember. kolke state's coaal maste plais a $ billion50-year plani conser myselan oceanogrher and coastal ologist,o i lo at issus likwhy we sk in louiana, and ilso look at issu lik howe rebud coasta landsca. the baier islas are ne of e first nes of fense ainst atorm, rit, so notichow thiss now prty much connuous.here'no chnnels inhe middlof it. th is an emple of restored

barrier land. all rig. thenou can senew orles, so th's e the maj post-kaina leve improvents, so thidea was to basicly to wa off thiarea to pvent a srm surgerom getti to the wer nintward. levees a sometim built wh earth, a sometim they're ilt withoncrete, b the core pnt is that ty are al a wall at protes an are frowaves d risingater fm a sto. the biest varble in ts is seaevel se. if t seal lerise tes are the lownd of th sptrum of at peopl pdict, th you cou rebuild rge are of thlandscap and prove fld protecon r a lot people.f rates aret the hi end, th i think lot of eas wilbe lost,ven with thetate's best forts.

l rightwell, weome to codrie. thmasterlan needs aot of int, and sthe kind owork thai do fee into t paramets that t sta needs apart of s master an. so, y know, iust want to gi you a vw of whathe salt marshearound here ok like. you canee that ere's mah oriles in at direcon. marsheprovide lot of bfer frm storm ergy, sohey' a buffebetween r human civilizaon and t sea, sohe restoration invols pumping sement inta marsh ke this to rai the eletion tallow it toetter ep pace th sea level re and toill in aas that have eroded

so th is the bba dove stcture, wch is onof the major oodgatesn the morganzto the gf levee systm. with levee, o questionhat you ve is ho'inse and o is ouside the lee syste by drawg this walin the msh, you're channg the eironmentbut yo'ralso setng dowa series princips of who lives wre and t kin of chices thathese counities ace in t yearshead, so of which e going be veryvery tou choices

bert p. quin: th area used tbe lover' lane cause therwas treeall overhe place. you cou get ihere a go hide ck thereso w'd listen music a hang ou with ur girliend. y'al d't ind if iay that,uh? all rit. i wasorn and ised right hre, in he tll grass rightere. i gss it reresent wre all omy cestorsas born d raised a died, a a lot iburied overere, awell, soo me, it mea a wholeunch. mardell the land is importt to ubecause 's whre our aestors stled. that's wherare famies are. that's whe the hea of who we ares. it's a sace at we become e with.

alrt p. nain: the dians werin the w of thwhite man, so ty alsigned trties forore landnd more nd, and tha'sow we goto ov here. t governmt chaseus, so we settleover hee and wahappy, a now mother ture is tting us away. brunet: this isy grandpents ony mothe's se, my gramothernd my grdfather righthere. was raid here whole fe. yesisle de anharlesas alwaybeen a wonderfuplace liv the islandidn't actuly open to the rld fuy, not uil abouthe earlyifties wn our ro was bui. itas vereasy to ke up in he morni and seermadillo in the yd or opoum or a raccn, you ow, croing the

yaror whater, whatn. all that hashanged bause, wi a lotf it jusbeing war now, th tre have died off. at u' seeing actualljust a skelen of whait used be, younow? alert p. nuin: to , it means almo, i guesyou can say, lika familyember hang ncer, yoknowit' being eatenway, younow, whe it'just a ttle bity little bit getng destred. now,he only thg is, t piecof land is lasng longethan theuman bo can.

e one ght heres an oil field nal. thre'one that paes here.here's onethat paes a biturther and the's onthat pass in the back, soou'e lookinat ter or stwater irusion cominfrom t pipelincanals, anthey desoyed the vegetion thawe useto have... butyou knowmost of e ople worfor the l comnies. th'rethe one that's putng food d payin the nt and mtgages a stuff likehat, so,s much ayou hate the you he to like em. dup: isle djean chaes is-- what's theommon ying?-he nary ithe mineield. w're

seeing-ver herewe call relate sea lel rise. u havehe globasea leverise, ich islight, t about % the seaevel rishere is becau of subsence, we bo subsidi and youave the global a level se at th same te, so w are snking b i ink it's 3 mlimeters ear. it esn'sound li much, t you gonto 40 years50 yearsand you art o noticeifferenc when you're alrey only sghtly ove the ter likesle de jean crles. brunet: the binning, was slow press. it s really not rely noticble, but tn whever theater staed coing in en more wh it, it got be morrapid bause they h more ter comi in and t land di'ttand a chanc

so many ople on eir o did makthe decion to go becau of the ter. na naqui my dad ved off the isld, i wanto s, righ bere i wasorn becae he wasn't able get to rk with theoad floong and hneeded to wo, t i amrom the biloxi-ctimacha-octaw ba isle deean chars, and that's my hetage, th is my dauter's herige. younow, at'our family lacy. albert pnaquin:aah! [lghter] t all t people o will b namedhurry upfarmer b. a chd was bo, evebody wenand visi and bught a gt. now 's no

appening tnk you f today's sunse. den, you want andian me? yes. your names littleox. the disacement ally, rely made change iour culte. now weind of le-- ha ha !--likthere arno ndians, ? dre: the ly way tse cotal counities ll suvive into the lar 21st centu is to ptect ourlves rom the lf of xico. i realize 300 yea, this wl probay be allpen wate i mea the seaill takes all overwhat i'm tryg to do th e leveeystem, wt i' tryg to do, is y oursels twor 3 genetions.

it's just about impossible to clude em into a levee sysm. it wod cost pbably $30 millio and it uld be nearlympossiblbecause e salt coitions a so bad. u know, build a fod-proteion prect, you ve to he more befits an ost. o thing tt's t facted in thcost, th only look at the ct of theomes, the co of the sinessesthe frastrucre, but,ou know, do't ow ow youut a pce ont, b they doot consir the co of a whe cultur filmdvance ccks] [tom-m playin mardelleas displement epsappeningnd we

jusfurther parate o community, it'll just t lost. [men anting] man: turto the lt. coardelle:e learneabout a natnal disaer resilnce plan coetition,o we submied our pns. we wked to fit wh the ate'master planand theyresentedt, and igot fund. saders: rit now, t way rocationsypicallyappein the uted stat, we relon an indidual buout mode d so,n otr wor, someon receiv some coensation

togo live mewherelse, bu in doinso, we o lose at cutural faic, so wdon' really kw if we n move pele colleively as group cheapeand morefficient thanndividua. comardle: the's ve litt positivin theorm of reselementf people. yo know, gernments jt don't do well.e presend a different mol, communitdesigned comunity-rien. i thnk that wa, hud loed on thatnd said, "et'try itlet'try a pil programsee we can gure ouhow to dthis on smalr scale we can ange it f--" we he so man mmunitiein t u.s. d road tt's cing the same clmate iues, and i thinkhat's why many peple are tching, cause it's like,ok. can really gethis righ" beuse we kw how portant is for e futurof the worldo get it rig.

brnet: the's realityhere that ion'ke, butt' mething tt i haveo face u to beuse, yosee, i h to go there d make aecision ave a ple that's alws been homeor 7 o8 generaons, and that wn't sy to let of, a, in ft, in spite of swering at questn a few tis, it stl don't ke it sy. [filadvance icks] comardel: sohis ishe new prefeed site r the isnd. ts is whe our comni is gonna moveo. it's a betiful ple. to methis is w life, w birth, sustnable ple. this a healthy ace. sanrs: now,e do undstand

that is is a storical trbal commity, ande also unrstand tt populaons have ft thisarticula locion over period time, d thoseolks whore successf in thisroject wl hae an opptunity t reonstitutin the n locati, but ouprimary t benefiaries arthe peop ving on e islandwe wan to pk up theeople th are liing in ts dire scenar and ense that ty live somewhe that isafe now d into e future comarlle: i he that t ibe wou own theand, and tuallywe ort of le a mixed nership.ou know,he fol would he full rhts to their nd, but the sam tie, if th were too and want tmove offf it, itould rert back the tri so that way, th ld will bforever sacred f the tri to ha. sanders: we'veot to wa a prettyine line by whh we're velopingomethinghat make sense f this mmunity t alsoould be plicableo a mh wider ray of couniti that y be ia simila situatn. we sily don't hav a ood answ to tht questn

yet. omardee: i finthis vy empowering. 's alwing us brk down se of tho culral barers, se of those ief barrrs tha's be in placfrom yea past. you di'tven reale it. ifevery otr hurrice season yo're ving to place ca or fuiture, y don't have chancto have vings, a you on't have chance tallow yo kids toava betterext step life. srting ouin is piecef proper, they can he a homend a wayo progrs into t future.f i was to rtray itn an endgered specielist, th is r rebirtwhere wean stt our nepopulati to get f that eangered ecies lt.

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