What's Next For Earth

I have been involved with The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) at Stanford University for several years, and this is the fifth work exhibited.

Contained inside the petri dishes are maps of places at risk of coastal flooding due to rising sea levels, including the Mississippi Delta.

In the Think Resilience course, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg specifically discusses this area in Louisiana: ‘Perhaps the most obvious application of land use planning in community resilience building is in coastal communities’ response to climate change and rising sea levels. The state of Louisiana offers us at once a very bad, and also a better, example. Changes in the Mississippi Delta that were designed to increase flood protection and enhance oil and gas production have instead destroyed wetlands and put entire communities and ecosystems at risk. Since 1932 the Mississippi River delta in south Louisiana has lost twenty- three hundred square miles of land, and it’s still losing the equivalent of a football field every hour to erosion, subsidence, and sea level rise’.