ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 2月27日 08時29分

As climate change pushes seas ever higher, nations are grappling with an existential question: Which communities should be protected, and which should be left to the tides? Welcome to Jean Lafitte. For this Louisiana community, the question is not whether it will succumb to the sea. It’s when. And how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life? “No matter what, we're not leaving,” says the mayor, Timothy P. Kerner. These days, the main road through Jean Lafitte floods almost any time a gusty storm blows in from the south. A mere sideswipe from Tropical Storm Cindy last June — when @misterwidmer took this photo — pushed several feet of water into streets and yards. After Hurricane Katrina, local, state and federal governments spent more than $20 billion to redesign levees and pumps for metropolitan New Orleans. But in Lafitte, only 25 miles south, the hurricane defense system consists mainly of the mayor and whichever men he can employ to sling 25-pound sandbags. “When I ran for this office,” he said, “I ran to provide a levee. That was my dream. I guess I haven’t done a very good job so far, because we don’t have one.” Visit the link in our profile to read our 3-part series, produced in collaboration with @nolanews, about the ecological crisis facing the Louisiana coast.

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