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Locked - a true story as told by the Elektrik Zoo and Dr. Josh Lewis Urban Ecologist
https://vimeo.com/337393583?fbclid=IwAR3ST3_anGzQpXS1ZZDR8UoAFtbwDA91hDlNCLjwMf6qFPDbkHtF7_T4M-A
The Port of New Orleans' industrial canal; this was one of the biggest failures in urban planning in American history; it is costly, with limited benefits and immense human suffering.
In the spring of 2020, the Army Corps of Engineers will submit their Lock replacement proposal to Congress for approval and ask for $1bn in funding. The idea that we should make a decision right now to re-leverage in a system that has caused so much suffering, so much environmental degradation, the idea that we would sink a billion dollars into that and then neglect to deal with the problems that that entire system created is madness.
With sea level rise, with our exposure to storms here, with the survivability of this city.....
If we want to survive into the next century, we want our communities to thrive, we want our landscape to be whole, we got a lot of work to do that is going to cost a good bit of money and that's got to happen before we start talking about replacing something like this lock
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