announcer: on this episode of "earth focus," lessons learned durinhurricankatrina e being puto the tt along e coa of louiana. someredict new orleans will be submged by te end othis cetury. thregion's surval depds on its abilitto adapt tolimate cnge. if succeful, louiana may provide bluepri for oers arou the wor. [filadvance clicki]

cker: tre were milies here. tre were ds in th streetlayingootball,ight? therwere nghbors. this house s the cay lady. ids, wwould co down andpend ouruarters d si here onhis porcand eat and jusenjoy thatmosphe ofthe commity, rig, and that went ay justvernig. it justot washeaway. elicopt whirrin ma: we areeeing sces like th one thrghout thcity. lberman: you rember if y told thm that e leees had oken? browni don't recall specificly, 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 waone of ose dayshat we tught, ey, 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, right, b now it'terrifyi.

it'terrifyng. lters: ts is not hoax. ths is rea climatehange is rea so how we liveith it? i thk in thisectioof wn, we're staing to understd that wer and lima changgoes hanin nd. johnsn: new leans ithe la 5 to 7 years s really ken on areat aptation climateesiliencand clate chae. elevaon is onof 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

orard. youee over re, 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 louiana. evidely, the rocess ogoing through the trs to beafruit, idoesn't ome in the fit. al, we commend ove-bed rdens wheryou can t fresh il to ve you cps that e not tanted witthat poi. wht we've 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 w 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, th' be loong at juswater. tt's .

willms: the plan we've reled on bieves th we can ght water, d if yo've er been toa beach en ther's a riptie andou thinyou can ght wate you willearn that ou willose thatattle. waoner: wi a climate aptationlan, youave a we stem and dry sysm, so when yoneed tlift wat out,ou can o that, t when you needo let thwater , you n let thwater in though thasystem into ese canal and cirlate it ound 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 perfect vegetati when yo wanwater tobsorb anbe able to ssipate a more grual ratei mean, doesn't loolike a t of natal science,ut ther's a lot o naural scice that es into it. ggoner:osts lesto have greeinfrastrture becse is is l-maintence. thiis a mod of a pa of the city the main drainageasin. you ve an unrground stem, e white lis under e ear. the id was to t the ater io these pes, to t th watero thespumps d ush it o. that w the thod. wiiams: trh of theatter is, the is no y to sol our waterssues wi just ou pumps a turbis. it's not ough. will ner be enough. ggoner:ou know,ecades o ing te wrong ing usuay ll you.e got oudeath rning in005. lliams: thereas a poitical ll to ma sure hat thisity seesnother00

ars, would mean having very butiful, very aesetic bleways alg with gways thughout t city, 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 aboucoastalssues, a they strted to ink abourisk reduion, procting pele rom floong, togeer with restoraon as onthing th eds to baddresse and s we ca up wi this cotal aster plan which is a listf pjects at havbeen scienticallyetted,nd so we ve projes that ddge marial froone place and t it in other ple to actlly

buildew marsh where t's opn watert the mont. on the rk-reductn side, havextensive sees 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 pln is 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 like how we rebud coasta landspe. the rrier isnds are one of the rst lineof defens ainst atorm, rit, so note how th is now etty much ctinuous.here'no chnnels inhe middlof it. th is an emple of restored

barrier land. l rightthenou 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,nd sometes they're ilt withoncrete, b the core pnt is that ty are al a walthat procts an aa frowaves d risingaters fm a sto. the biest varble in ts is seaevel se. if t seal lerise tes are the lownd of th specum of what peopl pdict, th you cou rebuild rge are of e landsce and prove ood prottion for a loof peopl if rate aret the hi end, th i think lot of eas wilbe lost, en with thetate's best forts.

al right. ll, welce to codrie. thmasterlan needs aot of int, and sthe kind owork thai do fee into t paramets thathe sta needs apart of s master an. so, younow, i jt wantedo ve you aiew of wt the sa marshearound here ok like. you canee that ere's mah oriles in at direcon. marss provida lot ofuffer frm storm ergy, sohey' a buffebetween r human civilizaon and t sea, sohe restoration invves puing sement inta marsh ke this to rai the eletion tallow it toetter keep pacwith sea level re and toill in aas that he erod.

so th is the bba dove stcture, wch is onof the major oodgatesn the morganzto the gf levee syste with a vee, 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 face inhe yearshead, so of which e going be veryvery tou choices

bert p. quin: th area used tbe lover' lane because therwas treeall overhe place. you cou get ihere a go hide ck thereso w'd listeto musicnd hang t with ur girliend. y'al d't ind if iay that,uh? all righ i was bn and raed right hre, in he ta 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 us cause '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 becomone with

albe p. naqu: the inans werin the w of thwhite man, so ty all signed trties forore landnd more nd, and that'sow we goto ov here. t governmt chaseus, soe settleover hee and wahappy, a now mother ture is tting us away. brunet: this isy grandpents ony mothe's se, my grndmothernd my grdfather rit ther i was rsed here whole fe. yesisle de jean charl has alws been wonderfuplace toive.he islandidn't actuly open to the rld fully, notntil abouthe earlyifties wn our ro was built. itas very sy 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, e tre have died off. at you' seeing actualljust a skelen of whait used be, younow? alert p. nuin: to , it mes almosti guess u can y, like family mber havi 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 o that sses a b further and the's onthat pass in the back, soou'e lookinat water oraltwaterntrusion cominfrom theipelincanals, anthey desoyed the vegetati that we used to 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. dupre: le de je charless-- 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 alady onlylightly ove the ter likesle de jean crles. brunetin 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 ownid makthe decion to go becausef the war. na naqui my dad ved off thesland, iant toay, rit fore i w born beuse 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 mily legy. alber 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. yr names littleox. the disacement ally, rely made change iour culte. now we kd of liv- ha ha !--le there e no ndians, ? dre: the ly way tse cotal counities ll suvive into the lar 21st centu is to ptect ourlves rom the lf omexico. 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 tw or 3 gerations.

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 how y put arice ont, b they doot consir the co of a whe cultur filmdvance ccks] [tom-m playin mardelleas displement kepsappeningnd we

jusfurther parate o counity, it'll just t lost. [men anting] man: turto the lt. coardelle:e learneabout a natnal disaer resilnce an compition, swe submied our pns. we wked to f with e state's mast planand theyresentedt, and igot fund. sanrs: righnow, theay elocatio typical hpen in thenited stes, we ry on individl buy-t model, anso, inther wds, somee recees some mpensati

togo live mewhe else, t in doinso, we o lose at culral faic, so wdon' really knoif we camove pele colleively as group cheapeand morefficient than iividuals comardle: the's ve litt positivin theorm of reselementf people. yo know, gernments just don't do well.e presend a diffent mode communitdesigned comunity-rien. i thnk that wa, hud loed on thatnd said,let's try i. let's try a pilotrogram, e we can figure t how too this oa smalr scale we can ange it f--" we he so man mmunitiein t u.s. d road tt's cing the same imate iues, and think that's why many peple are tching, cause it's like,ok. can really gethis righ" becae we kno how portant is for e futurof the worldo get it rig.

brnet: the's realityhere that ion'li, but i's mething tt i haveo face u to beuse, yosee, iad to go there d make aecision ave a ple that's alws been home for 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. [film vance icks] comardel: sohis ishe new prefeed site r the isnd. ts is whe our comnity is gonna moveo. it's a betiful ple. to methis is nelife, nebirth, a sustnable ple. this a healthspace. saders: no we do uerstand

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 of beneciaries e the pele living othe isla. we wan to pk up theeople th are livg in thidire scenar and ense that ty live somewhe that isafe now d into e future comardee: i hopthat the ibe wou own theand, and tuallywe st of lika 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 tbe so th way, th ld will bforever cred f the tri to ha. sanders: we'veot to wa a pret fine li by whh we're develong sometng that kes sense f this counity bu alsoould be plicableo a mucwider ary of commniti that y be in similar situatio we simp don't have a ood answ to tht questn

yet. omardee: i finthis vy empowering. it's allong us to brk down se of tho cutural bariers, ome of those grf barrie that's en in ple from yrs 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'have a ance to low yo kids toava betterext step life. srting ouin th piece opropertythey canave a ho and a w to proess intohe futur if i was tportray on an endgered specielist, th is r rebirtwhere wean starour new pulationo get f that eangered ecies lt.

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