The island was primed for a climate-induced catastrophe, partly because of myopic disruptions of its environment over the past 150 years, writes Frederick Hewett.
as a contributing cause. The island was primed for a climate-induced catastrophe, in part due to myopic and ultimately degrading disruptions of its environment over the past 150 years.
There is no simple explanation for the ferocity of the blaze that incinerated Lahaina. The extent and severity of any wildfire depend on a complex interplay of many factors, direct and indirect. But in this case and many others, prior ecological damage caused by humans unquestionably set the stage for a dire outcome.An aerial image taken on Aug. 10, 2023 shows destroyed homes and buildings burned to the ground in Lahaina after wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii.
to the sea. Levees built to tame the river's floods also block its sediments, which once spread across the Delta and maintained the land mass. Today the sediment sinks uselessly into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. With its supply of new soil cut off, the existing ground subsides and erodes away.has also altered the Delta's landscape. Canals dredged for pipelines and shipping have uprooted vegetation and disturbed the natural flow of water.
These changes to the Delta's environment have diminished its natural defenses against climate threats. An intact delta would better absorb floodwaters and buffer rapidly intensifying hurricanes like, which blasted the Louisiana coast in 2021. Moreover, stemming the accelerating loss of land would mitigate the consequences of inexorably rising sea levels this century.
Just 700 miles southeast of the Mississippi Delta, Florida’s coral reefs have similarly suffered damage, again creating conditions that intensify climate effects. Healthy reef structures
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