Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100612:01:09:00
David talking about where new orleans started in terms of being on the natural levee. we think about the city obviously not physically moving towards shore -- towards the shore, but the shore encroaching in towards the city. how much of these wetlands have we been losing and why? >> that's the tragedy of the thing. we're losing 25 to 30 square miles of wetlands a year here, which basically during the time we're talking, maybe an area the size of a football field may have disappeared. where that's coming from is oil and gas extraction, which has seen the subsidence created. then of course the c...
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