GLOBAL WARMING: Whole Louisiana Community being moved: Rising Waters are forcing the move. (This is the first of many to come.)

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/americas-first-climate-refugees-entire-community-to-be-relocated-as-louisiana-island-sinks-into-the-sea

experts see places like Isle de Jean Charles as lost causes.

“We are very cognizant of the obligation to taxpayers to not throw good money after bad,” McFadden of the Department of Housing and Urban Development said. “We could give the money to the island to build back exactly as before, but we know from the climate data that they will keep getting hit with worse storms and floods, and the taxpayer will keep getting hit with the bill.”

With door-to-door visits, the state is only beginning to find out what the residents want in a new plan, Forbes said.

I’ve lived my whole life here, and I’m going to die here

The location of the new community has not been chosen. Chiefs of the island’s two tribes — the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and the United Houma Nation — have debated who would be allowed to live there beyond the islanders themselves, and whether some islanders could resettle elsewhere. One of the planners involved in the resettlement suggested a buffer area between the new community and its surrounding neighbourhood to reduce tension. Naquin wants live buffalo on site.

What has been decided, and what was essential for the islanders’ support, is that the move be voluntary.

“I’ve lived my whole life here, and I’m going to die here,” said Hilton Chaisson, who raised 10 sons on the island and wants his 26 grandchildren to know the same life of living off the land.

He conceded that the flooding has worsened, but, he said, “we always find a way.”