Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Prompts call to action on climate change:
Eight years after Hurricane Katrinadecimated metro New Orleans, elected officials, community activists and religious leaders gathered Saturday to recognize the region's resilience. But more importantly, they urged expedient action on rebuilding the state's fragile coastline and addressing the impacts of climate change.
"We have a moral obligation to future generations to insure that tragedies like Hurricane Katrina do not happen again,'' said Norma Jane Sabiston of the Climate Action Committee Louisiana.
The call came during the Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, which commemorated the eighth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The event was held at the Treme Community Center.
Sabiston said that New Orleans knows well the effects of climate change from rising sea levels and a disappearing coastline and an increased frequency of storms.
"In the past eight decades, Louisiana has lost 1,880 square miles of coastal marshes or an area about the size of Manhattan,'' she said. "It is land that Louisiana and our nation cannot afford to lose.''
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