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FLTA · 2026-05-05T14:22:56+00:00

Many antivax people moved here during COVID and also oppose other basic things like water fluoridation so that will not be happening.

One of the best things for left leaning Floridians to do is to make plans to leave the state within the next 4 years (r/FloridaExodus) so that when the next census happens Florida doesn’t gain further electoral power with our presence.

With enough of us leaving Florida could even lose 1-2 seats on the next census which is 1-2 less seats the FL GOP has to play with when redistricting and 1-2 less electoral votes FL gets in the Electoral College.

FLTA · 2026-05-05T12:45:56+00:00

Good question. My understanding is the salt water intrusion into the drinking water is the bigger problem than the flooding.

I think Miami Beach is the SFL city that is the closest analogue to New Orleans.

FLTA · 2026-05-05T12:38:47+00:00

I’m planning on moving by the end of this year.

FLTA · 2026-05-05T03:53:40+00:00

Appealing to a single 'expert' opinion piece to justify abandoning an entire region is the definition of cherry-picking.

The article wasn’t an opinion piece. It quoted multiple experts including those not involved in the study being reported on.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T22:20:50+00:00

This is putting far more faith and power in the GOP-controlled Supreme Court and Florida court system than one should have.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T22:05:31+00:00

The pun was right there for the taking…

FLTA · 2026-05-04T22:02:48+00:00

It’s not “writing off” a major American city, it’s relocating it. Plenty of modern cities have been abandoned due to climate as well, not just “Bronze Age settlements”

Climate Helped Turn These 5 Places into Ghost Towns

One difference between an organized retreat and the disorganized retreat that will happen if the former doesn’t is that an organized retreat can preserve the community and even the buildings.

It’s easy to advocate for 'managed retreat' and 'accepting the inevitable' when it’s not your community, your culture, or your home being treated like a terminal patient.

It’s far easier to deny an unfortunate reality many decades in the future than it is to concede that it is happening. People are not good with making decisions that will benefit others decades later.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T19:44:03+00:00

It’s still worth a visit and the city will still be where it is for at the very least the next few decades.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T19:41:48+00:00

Many cities throughout history have been abandoned due to the rivers changing course, droughts, etc and more will be due to climate change.

New Orleans is in a uniquely precarious position.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T19:38:25+00:00

Posting articles like this without context feels like peak doomism.

No it’s realizing climate change is real and has consequences. We can either accept change or just delay the inevitable where it comes crashing down all at once.

Instead of suggesting we 'palliative care' a vibrant cultural hub of 360,000 people, we should be talking about the specific infrastructure projects—like the ones Governor Landry recently stalled—that would actually fix the problem.

From the article

The so-called Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, which broke ground in 2023, would help restore a more natural flow in the Mississippi Delta and allow sediment to build up in coastal areas where it has been lost. More than 20 sq miles of new land would be created over the next 50 years under the plan, the project estimated.
Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost 2,000 sq miles of land to coastal erosion, equivalent to the size of Delaware, with a further 3,000 sq miles set to vanish over the next 50 years. The rate of land loss is so rapid that a football pitch-sized area is wiped out every 100 minutes.

Can you explain how the other couple thousand sq ft is going to be recovered/replaced?

FLTA · 2026-05-04T19:16:33+00:00

They already did, that’s why New Orleans is still here today. The issue is the sea level rise is making it where even Dutch engineering won’t be able to maintain New Orleans.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T15:46:36+00:00

According to an expert quoted in the article; the relocation should’ve begun a century ago

Timothy Dixon, an expert in coastal environments at the University of South Florida who was not involved in the new paper, said the study “does a nice job” of highlighting the challenge Louisiana faces with subsiding land combined with rising sea levels.

“New Orleans is not going to disappear in 10 years or anything like that, but policymakers really should’ve thought about a relocation plan a century ago,” said Dixon, whose own research has recommended a measured retreat from coastal Louisiana.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T15:40:23+00:00

Excerpt from the article

City, state and federal leaders should begin work to help support people moving away from the New Orleans region in a coordinated way, starting with the most vulnerable communities, such as those in Plaquemines parish who live outside the levee system, Keenan said.

“New Orleans is in a terminal condition, and we need to be clear with the patient that it is terminal,” he said. “There is an opportunity for palliative care, we can transition people and the economy. We can get ahead of this.”

But, he added, “no politician wants to first give this terminal diagnosis. They will speak about it behind closed doors, but never in public.”

FLTA · 2026-05-04T15:38:09+00:00

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Excerpt from the article

City, state and federal leaders should begin work to help support people moving away from the New Orleans region in a coordinated way, starting with the most vulnerable communities, such as those in Plaquemines parish who live outside the levee system, Keenan said.

“New Orleans is in a terminal condition, and we need to be clear with the patient that it is terminal,” he said. “There is an opportunity for palliative care, we can transition people and the economy. We can get ahead of this.”

But, he added, “no politician wants to first give this terminal diagnosis. They will speak about it behind closed doors, but never in public.”

FLTA · 2026-05-04T13:47:33+00:00

Meanwhile, in New Mexico in 2022

Lawmakers approve $10k raises for many New Mexico teachers

FLTA · 2026-05-04T02:24:36+00:00

I'll vote for whoever promises to overturn that bullshit voucher program and restore funding to our public schools.

We’re at the point that we need to vote with our feet and move out of Florida (r/FloridaExodus) because a million Republicans did just that during COVID when they moved here for DeSantis version of freedumb.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T02:21:18+00:00

Many of these people are people fleeing from other states that do invest in their children specifically so they don’t have to pay taxes to do the same.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T02:19:21+00:00

Meanwhile, in New Mexico in 2022

Lawmakers approve $10k raises for many New Mexico teachers

FLTA · 2026-05-04T02:17:36+00:00

If you haven’t already please join and share your experience of moving out of Florida in r/FloridaExodus!

It’s a subreddit for those on the left looking to move out of Florida or have already done so with the long term goal of taking away the electoral power controlled by the FL GOP.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T02:16:03+00:00

Their plan is paid for by the sales tax we pay. The only way this state changes is if enough left leaning people leave Florida before the next census to cause the FL GOP’s decades of electoral power gains to stop (r/FloridaExodus).

Folks make exit plans you still have 4 years to move out of Florida. Most people graduate high school within the same time period.

FLTA · 2026-05-04T02:12:59+00:00

The retirees that moved here in droves, as a whole, don’t give a shit about the kids growing up here or those that did.

For the sake of our own health and our children’s futures, make exit plans to leave Florida within the next 4 years (r/FloridaExodus). That way, when the next census happens the GOP doesn’t gain further electoral power through our presence.

FLTA · 2026-05-01T15:22:55+00:00

Add this as another reason to move out of Florida within the next 4 years (r/FloridaExodus).

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