Putting the BP oil disaster in context.

May 4, 2010

Flickr/New Orleans Lady

As we watch the growing oil spill off of the Gulf Coast, I wonder about the vulnerable communities I visited in the area at the end of March.  While visiting with MCC service worker Pam Nath, we drove to the Gulf in order to see the affects of continual wetland and coastal erosion in Louisiana.  Dangerous eroding since 1920 has depleted this natural barrier for hurricanes and adversely affected historic communities based on the water.

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