新奥尔良终于有了飓风防护计划

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2005年,卡特里娜飓风袭击了新奥尔良,此后在改善该市及周边三角洲地区的长期风暴防护方面几乎没有作为。等待可能终于结束了。在美国陆军工程兵团、各城市和行政区(县)就相互竞争的计划争论多年之后,一项宏伟计划已经出炉,该计划由一个州机构倡导,早在卡特里娜飓风袭击之前,该机构的领导人就一直在向充耳不闻的耳朵呼吁需要更好的安全保障。

海岸保护和恢复管理局昨天公布了总体规划。该计划将需要在50年内投入500亿美元,用于重建整个三角洲海岸的大片沼泽和屏障岛屿,从而形成抵御风暴潮和海浪的天然屏障。还将建造更多的堤坝、防洪墙和闸门,以保护新奥尔良和其他城镇。该计划的几个主要部分呼应了专家在2006年《大众科学》文章中提出的建议,该文章权衡了潜在的选择。


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新奥尔良当地的主要新闻机构《泰晤士报-皮卡尤恩报》发布了一篇清晰有趣的报道,解释了该计划的步骤,并考虑了它们获得必要的公众和政治支持的可能性。该网站包含一张地图,显示了主要项目将发生的地点,以及一张概述如果不实施该计划将损失给海洋的1756平方英里湿地的地图。

恢复管理局将在2月25日之前就该计划征求公众意见,并将于1月23日至25日在新奥尔良及其周边地区举行三次公开会议。

图片来源:海岸保护和恢复管理局

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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