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Levees can no longer save New Orleans

Residents move a boat through a flooded neighborhood after Hurricane Ida in August 2021 in Barataria, Louisiana, near New Orleans. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Lou...