announcer: on this episode of "earth focus," lessons learned durg hurrice katrinare being puto the tt along e cst of losiana. so predictew orlns will be bmerged the en of this cenry. the gion's surval dends on s abity to apt climatehange. i sucessful,ouisianaay provi a bluepnt forthers ound theorld. [fm advance clicng]

tucker:here werfamili here.here werkids in e stre playi footbal right? the wereeighbo. this houswas the ndy ladyas kids, wwould co down andpend ouruarters d t here this poh and ea and jusenjoy thatmosphe the counity, rht, and tht wentway justvernig. it ju got wasd away. [helicoer whirrg] ma: we are seeing enes lik th one thrghout thcity. iebermando you rember if you told em thatthe vees habroken? bro: i don't reca specifally, t it washat w orlea is floong.

lters: n sit. knoed over em planton their rch la night,uh? ss is se upset th you. couple months o, we haa ran storm,ust a ornary rainstm in soueast louiana. it s one of the days tt we thoht, "heyjust a ltle rain but low ad behol the ci flooded.he draine system was not upo par. tucker: lovedurricaneas kidsi remeer when e calm came, would py out inhe water. was jusanother y off froschool, right,ut now

it's terrifng. i's terrfying. lters: ts is not hoax. ths is rea climatehange is rel, so hodo we li with ? i ink in ts sectn of town, 're srting underand thatater and clite change goes hd in hand. johon: neorleans n the st 5 t7 years s really taken on great aptation of clima resiliee and cimate chnge. eletion is e of the jor adaations tt you sotimes se is thathe housesre raisehigher. ts is theenter fothe suainable gagementnd develoent. wehave rai gaens herewe help communies how tbuild ra garden we alsoave a

orard. youee over re, we havlemons. t us oneff here.fter krina, u had al these tons from e water,o at wentnto thsoil, an that's all ov the lower ninth wa and probly a loin losiana. evintly, th processf going through the ees to br fruit,t doesn't ome in theruit. so, we recommd above-d garden wheryou can t fresh il to give yourops thaare not inted wh that pnt. wht we've trd to do help with theommunityo first edate them becaue they t nfused aut, you ow, is climate ange a pitical issue. is it rl? wjust try to give them thfacts. tn we try to sw how ey can b adocates for how wadapt to at clima. tucker: we don't do somethg, all this auty of newrleans tat everody love touristcome dowto see, th' lking at jt water.hat'it.

wiiams: the plan 've ried onelieves at we cafight water, d if yo've er been to beach wh there's a riptidand you tink youan fight ter, youill lear that ou willose thatattle. ggoner: th a cmate adtation pn, you he a wet syem and ary syste so when u need o lift wer t, you cn do th, but wh you ne to let e watein, yocan let e water though thasystem into thse nals a circula it arou e city wiiams: ime, some pple mighwalk pas here an think, "oh, yh. it's just orgrown grass.no. it's low-lyi area at has certain

vegetion in ithat is e perft vetation wn you want war to absb and be able to dissipatat a mor grual ratei mean, doesn't lok like lot of natur scienc but the's lot o tural sence thagoes int it. waggone costs ls to have greeinfrastrture becse this isow-maintance. ths is a mel of a rt of th citas the mn draina basin. yohave an dergrounsystem, the whitnes undethe eath. the ea was tget the waternto thespipes, tget thatater tthespumps and push out. th was the method. lliams: uth of t matter is, ere is nway to sve our wat issues th just r umps and turbine it's not enoughit willever be enoug waggone you kno decadesf ing te wronthing uslly ll you.e got oudeath warning 2005. williamsif the was a liticawill to ke sure hat thisity seesnother00

ars, would mean ving very butiful, very aesetic ueways ong withreways roughouthe 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 starteto get ry serus aboucoastalssues, a they arted tthink abt risk reduion, procting pele frofloodingtogetherith restotion as e thing at needs toe addresd, ando we me up th this astal master anhich ia li of pjects at havbeen scieifically vette and so whave procts thatredge terial fm one place anput in anotr place actuall

bui new mares wherehere's opn water at the ment. on the rk-reductn sidewe hae extensive ries of leveesnd floodtes arou ome crital coast counities.hese arerojects tht we think will rk, not rk now,ut work to the fuure. man: thiis skylane 5478 vember. kolr: stat's cstal masr pln is a50 billi, 50-yea pl. i coider mysf an oceanogrher and coastal ologist,o i lo at issus le why weink in lisiana, and ilso look at issu lik owe rebud coasta lancape. thbarrier lands are o of the rst lineof defens against storm, ght, so note how th is now etty much ctinuou there's no annels the mide of it. is is anxample oa restor

barrier land. all rht. th you can senew orles, so th's e of the mor post-trina lee improments, sthidea waso sicallyo wall o this ar to prent a sto surge fm getng to thlower nih ward. lees are setimes blt with earth,nd sometes they're built wi concrete, but the coreoint is that ty are al a walthat procts an aa from ves d risingaters from atorm. thbiggest varble in ts is seaevel riseif the sl level se rates arat the l end of e sptrum of at peopl pdict, th you cou rebuild large aas of thlandscap and pride flooprotecti foa lot ofeople. irates ar at thhigh endthen i thi a lot oareas wl be lost,ven with the stat's besefforts.

l rightwell, weome to codrie. e maste plan needs lot of put, ando the kind owork thai do fee intohe paramers thathe ste needss part oits masteplan. so,ou know, just waed to ve you aiew of wt the sa marshearound here lo like. you canee that ere's rsh for miles ithat dirtion. rshes pride a loof bufr om storenergy, they're a bufr betweeour huma civilizaon and t sea, sohe restoration invves pumping sement inta marsh ke this to rse the evation o allow it better keep pacwith sea levelise and fill inreas that haveroded.

so thiss the bba dove struure, wch is onof the major fldgates ithe morganzto the gf levee systm. with levee,ne questi that yohave is who's inse and o is ouside the lee syste by drawg this wl in thearsh, y're chging thenvironme, but u'e alsoting dn a serieof princles of w liveshere andhe kinds of oices tt these mmunitie face inhe years ahead, me of whicare gointo be ve, very togh choic.

albert pnaquin: is area usedo be lov' lane cause therwas treeall over the placeyou could getn herend go hidback the, so w'd listeto musicnd hang t wityour gifriend.'all d't ind if iay that,uh? all ght. i w born anraised righ here, n t tall gss rig here. iuess it presenthere allf my cestorsas born d raised andied, and lot is ried ov here, s well, to me, means whole bch. comardee: the ld impoant to ubecause 's ere ourncestorsettled. th's whe are falies are tha's wre the hrt of wh we ares. i's apacthat we becomone with

alrt p. nain: the dians we in theay of e white man, sohey all signed eaties f more la and mor land, anthat' how we t to ov here. t governmt chaseus, so we settd over re and s happy,nd now mother ture is tting us awy. brunet: this my granarents on my ther's side,y andmoth and my andfather ght ther i was rsed here my whollife. y. isle d jeanharlesas alws been wonderl place liv the isld didn't actally opeup to thworld fully, notntil abo the ear fiftieshen our ro was bui. was vereasy to ke up in the morng and s armadil in theard or ossum or raccoon, yoknow, cssing th

yaror whater, whatn. all that h changedecause, th a lo of it jt being ter now, e tes have ed offwhat you' seeing actuay just a keton of wt it useto be, younow? bert p.aquin: tme, it ans alst, i gus you ca say, lika familyember hang cancer, u know? it's being eat away, y know, wre it's just little b by litt bit getng destred. now,he only thg is,he pie of lan is lting lonr than t human dy can.

the onright re is anil fielcanal. ere's one at pass here. tre' onethat paes a biturther, d there's one at passein thback, so y'rlooking wateor saltwer intruon coming om the pipeline nals, 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 thrent andortgagesnd stu li that, s as muchs you hate the you he to like them. dup: isle djean chaes is-- what's t commonsaying?-the canaryn the mi field. 're

seein-over he, we calit relive sea vel riseyou ha the glol sea lel rise, whichs slightbut abou80% of the s level re here i becse of suidenceso we th subsing and y have th globasea leverise at e sameime, soe areinkingy, think i's 3illimete a ear. it esn'sound li muchbut you into yea, 50 yea, and yostart to noti differees whe you're alady onlylightly above thwater li isle de jeanharles. brunetin theeginningit was a slow ocess. iwas real not rely noticble, buthen 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 chae,

so many ople on eir o did makthe decion to go becau of the ter. dena naqn: my damoved of the iand, i wt to s, right fore i w born beuse he wasn't ablto get twork wit theoad floong and hneeded to rk, but i from th biloxihitimachchoctaw nd of isle jean chles, and that's my ritage, at is my dauter's herige. younow, that's our family lacy. alber p. naqui yaah! aughter] get allhe peoplwho wille nam. hurry , farmeroy. a ild was rn, evrybody wt and vit androught aift. nowt's t

happeni. hank youor toda's srise. aiden, u want indianame? yes. your na is litt fox. the dplacemenreally, ally mada changen our cuure. now weind of le-- ha hha!--le there e no ndians, ? dre: the ly way tse astal mmunitiewill survivento the ter 21st cenry is torotect oselves rom the lf of xico. i realizin 300 yrs, thisill probly be a open war. i mn, the s will ta us all ov. what 'm ting to dwith e leveeystem,hat i'm tring to do, is y oursels o or 3 neration

it's just about impossible t includthem inta leve stem. it uld costrobably 00 milln, and iwould be near impossie becausthe salt nditionsre so d. you knowto build lood-proction oject, y have toave moreenefitsthan cost. o thing tt's t faored in e cost, ey only look at theost of t homes, the st of thbusiness, the frastrucre, but,ou know, do't ow how y put arice it, b they doot consir the st of a ole culte. [film advancelicks] [totom playg] mardelleas displement e happeni and we

just fuher sepate our community, it'll just t lost. [mechanng] man: tn to theeft. mardell we leard about nional dister resience plan coetition,o we subtted ourlans. weorked toit with the sta's maer pl, and th present it, and igot fund. saders: rit now, t way relocatns typicly hpen in thenited stes, we ry on an individl buy-oumodel, and s in otr wordssomeone receivesome compsation

togo live mewherelse, bu in dog so, wdo losthat cutural faic, so wdon' really kw if we n move people clectivelas a gro cheaper d more eiciently than iividua. comaelle: the's ry lile posite in the form settlement of pele. you know,overnmentsust d't do it wel we prested a dierent mol, communitdesigned mmunitdriven. i ink tha wa, hud loed on that and said "let's tryt. let's try pilotrogram, e we can fiure out w to do is on a smalr scale we can ange it for" we havso many counities t u.s. an road tt's cing the same clite issue and i thi tt's y so man ople arwatchingbecause it's like,ok. can really gethis righ" becae we kno how imrtant its for th futurof the worldo get it rig.

unet: tre'a reali there that ion'ke, butt' soething that have to ce up to cause, u see, iad to go therand make decisioto ave a ple that's alws been home f 7 or generatis, and thatasn'easy to lego of, a, in ft, in spite of swering at questn a few time it still doe't ma it sy. [filadvancclicks] comardel: sohis is t new prerred sitfor the land. his is wre our cmuty is gonna mo to. it's a autiful ace. to , this i w life, w birth, suainable ace. thiis a healthspace. nders: w, we donderstan

thathis is historicly ibal counity, a we also derstandhat poputions havleft thi particur loation ov a perioof time, d thoseolks whore succesul in th projectill ve an oortunityo constite in theew locaon, but r primarset of beneciaries e the pele ving on e islandwe want to pk up theeople th are livg in thidire scenar and eure thathey live somewhe that isafe now d intthe futu. mardell i hope at the tribeould ownhe land,nd actual, we ort of le a xed ownehip. younow, the theiland, buat the ses to tie, if th were too and want tmove offf it, itould reve back tohe tri so that ay, that lanwill be rever saed for t tribe thave. sanders: we've got twalk a prty fine ne by ich we're develong sometng that kes sense f this mmunity t alsoould be plicableo a mh wider ray of couniti that mabe in a milar tuatio we simp don't have good aner to at queion

ye. comardelle: iind thivery empowing.t's lowing uto brk down se of tho culral barers, se of those grf barrie that's been in ace fromears pas you dn' even reize it. if ery othehurricanseason, ou' havingo replaccars or furnure, youon't have chae toave savis, and y d't ave a chce to alw yo kids toe a bett next stein life.tarting t in this pie of propty, th canave a ho and a w to proess intohe futur if i waso portrait on an eangered specs list, is is r rebirtwhere wean stt our nepopulati to get f that eangered ecies ist.

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