05 setembro 2005

ECOPOL

After the Hurricane [cartoons sobre o Katrina e Nova Orleães]

Katrina damages New Orleans landmarks

Bloggers, Citizen Journalists See Katrina From The Inside: "Traditional journalism is the outside looking in," Mitch Gelman, executive vice president of CNN.com, said. "Citizen journalism is the inside looking out. In order to get the complete story, it helps to have both point of views."

The city that will be: what will the new New Orleans look like? How much will it resemble its antediluvian self?

Hurricanes: Today [April 2005], parts of New Orleans lie up to 20 feet below sea level, and the city is sinking at a rate of about nine millimeters a year. "This makes New Orleans the most vulnerable major city to hurricanes," says John Hall of the Army Corps of Engineers. "That?s because the water has to go down, not up, to reach it."