#174: Hope Against the Storm
So many tropical storms and hurricanes hit Louisiana\u2019s Isle de Jean Charles that native residents talk about them as if they\u2019re family members: \u201cWho broke that window\u2014Rita? Gustav? It wasn\u2019t Katrina or Ike.\u201d Rising sea levels and increasingly volatile storms bring other, no less harmful consequences, too: groundwater salinization, disappearing wetlands, decimated wildlife and fishing. The choice for people and animals in these places is stark: retreat or die. In her book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, environmental reporter Elizabeth Rush tells the stories of the life-altering changes happening right now in our own back yards. This episode originally aired in 2018.
Go beyond the episode:
- Elizabeth Rush\u2019s book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
- Episode page, with a slideshow of Elizabeth Rush's photographs from the book
- \u201cThe Marsh at the End of the World,\u201d an excerpt from the book, published in Guernica
- Read an excerpt from Rush\u2019s previous work, Still Lives from a Vanishing City, on disappearing homes in Yangon, Myanmar, in Granta
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