it could be worse, Jefferson island sank due to a trig error
Posted on 03/27/2018 8:36:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With thousands of square miles of land already lost along the coast, Avery Island, home of the famed hot sauce, faces being marooned.
The home of Tabasco, the now ubiquitous but uniquely branded condiment controlled by the same family since Edmund McIlhenny first stumbled across a pepper plant growing by a chicken coop on Avery Island, is under threat. An unimaginable plight just a few years ago, the advancing tides are menacing its perimeter.
“It does worry us, and we are working hard to minimise the land loss,” said Tony Simmons, the seventh consecutive McIlhenny family member to lead the company. “We want to protect the marsh because the marsh protects us.”
Around 2,000 sq miles of land, roughly the size of Delaware, has vanished from the state since the 1930s due to a cocktail of maladies and self-inflicted wounds, stemming from the overdevelopment of the Mississippi river and an unquestioning embrace of extractive drilling, topped off by the wrenching global consequences of climate change.
Climate change has cast a shadow over several everyday staples, menacing the production of chocolate, the harvesting of hops for beer, the growing of coffee beans. Tabasco has no plans to join this list, with the company insisting the production of its peppers isn’t at risk and that its ancestral home can be safeguarded.
There are signs of hope, at least environmentally. Recent diversions of sediment have provided a jolt of growth to patches of the delta, a restoration that would be further bolstered by the master plan’s projects.
The branching wetlands, with white pelicans soaring overhead, remain an ecological wonder, persisting despite the scars of pipelines and the ongoing plight of its native communities, such as Isle de Jean Charles, that will be among the first climate change refugees in the US.
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Gumbo is indecipherable okra based mush but to each his own.
Filet gumbo on the other hand can be a delicacy
With the name Thibodeaux you probably know better than me. But I still like steamed okra.
GI’s love the little bottles included in the MREs.
Or you could have both. It's all a matter of blending of tastes.
You've obviously not had much gumbo. And that apparently not done well.
it could be worse, Jefferson island sank due to a trig error
I should’ve left a winkie.
LOL!
:-)
Build some levees.
yeah, right. the ocean is rising JUST around Avery Island. Must be because gravity is weakening around that island.
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