Disappearing Mississippi Delta, 1972 - 2014
This last factor has prompted some of Louisiana’s coastal parishes to sue the oil and gas industry, a “bite the hand that feeds you” course of action that wouldhave been unthinkable just a few years ago. But desperate times breed desperate measures. There is an ambitious $50 billion plan to “fix” the Delta. The billions of dollars in Clean Water Act fines that BP and their partners will pay for the 2010 BP / Deepwater Horizon oil and gas disaster could provide a solid downpayment on this recovery plan.
Here’s our own look at the severity of the problem. Thanks to the colossal archive of Landsat satellite imagery available for free via the US Geological Survey, we can time-travel back to the early 1970s to get a big-picture perspective on how much has changed:
1972: Mississippi Delta and Louisiana coastline as seen on August 7, 1972, just 15 days after the launch of the first Landsat earth-imaging satellite. |
2014: This mosaic of two Landsat-8 images collected by the Landsat-8 satellite in 2014 starkly illustrates the loss of march vegetation (green) over the past four decades. |
Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2014/09/disappearing-mississippi-delta-1972-2014.html
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