This kind of makes me wonder, yet again, at what point will people actually resign themselves to the idea that perhaps it’s not worth the enormous financial cost and the catastrophic risk of human life to rebuild New Orleans exactly where it was before? So this year’s hurricane season is supposed to be worse than last year. So the levees won’t be done in time, but even if they were, there’s no way to really ensure they’ll protect a sinking landmass from ever worsening hurricanes. So people are encouraged to return even though the city still isn’t really up and running. So a lot of volunteers refuse to go back to New Orleans for a multitude of reasons. So the whole city has massive problems with corruption on every level. And now we find out that pretty much all of southern Louisiana is rapidly sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.

    Yes, it was a horrific tragedy. Yes, we’re all really sad and feel terrible about what happened. Yes, it’d be great to have New Orleans back the way it was before. Yes, we’re all going to miss it. But at what point do we draw the line and say that the risks are just too great and that human lives are worth more than sentimentality? Maybe when Godzilla shows up, the people in charge will rethink their plans at least for a minute or two and perhaps take all those funds and invest them in some place that won’t end up in the gulf anyway, no matter how many celebrities visit or how many levees you build. It’s just sad all the way around, but personally, no amount of post-tragedy courage would ever make me want to live in a sinking city. It just seems like egging Mother Nature on and begging for another disaster.