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A 4 page paper which examines the issues involving the environment as it involves Hurricane Katrina. The paper focuses on the work of J.R. McNeill and Paul Kennedy “Something New Under the Sun.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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and the environment in general. In recent times the nation saw the devastating results of the hurricane Katrina, a hurricane that left New Orleans flooded and all but destroyed. The
following paper examines the environment as it relates to hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. The paper utilizes the work J.R. McNeill and Paul Kennedy "Something New Under the Sun," as
a basis for much of the examination. The Environment and Hurricane Katrina In J.R. McNeill and Paul Kennedys "Something New Under the Sun" the authors take the reader
through the 20th century in relationship to environmental changes and environmental alterations made by humanity in the United States. As it relates to New Orleans, or the regions around it,
the authors state that in 1927 there was a flood that caused a great deal of devastation in that region of the world: "That spring and summer saw one of
the rivers biggest floods known history. From the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi... the water overflowed banks and levees in 170 counties, killed several hundred people, and
at points formed a shallow lake 16o kilometers wide. New Orleans was saved only by dynamiting levees upstream to let the water spread out over rural Louisiana and Mississippi" (McNeill;
Kennedy 183). The authors then illustrates how the efforts after this flood, in building levees, did a great deal in protecting the
region from following floods and disasters. But, at the same time it encouraged growth and construction so that more people moved in, and when any real disaster, such as Hurricane
Katrina, hit more people were at risk, or harmed (McNeill; Kennedy 184). With these levees, levees that were intended to keep the water out of the below sea level
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