Outside Reading Post number 2

"After Hurricane Ike, Finding the Coastline Rearranged, Again". About two days after hurricane Ike hit the gulf coast on September 13th 2008, some scientists from the United States Geological Survey were unable to find Ship Island even though according to their maps they were right above it. After further searching, it turns out that the whole eastern half of ship island had been submerged and only half of the island remained. Ship Island is an important island in the area because brown pelicans used to build their nests there and now all those pelicans will have to find somewhere else to live for a while. This is just the latest blow to the Chandeleur Islands (the group if islands that Ship Island is a part of ) which have continued to steadily submerge over the past few decades. Scientists mostly blame storms and global warming for the submerged islands, but also say that government dredging projects are hurting the islands. Scientists also say that building the Chandeleur Islands back up is a costly and difficult project, and will likely not happen.

I think that this is a big problem not only in the gulf coast but also around the world and yet many people still aren't even aware that it's a problem. I think that the government needs to be at least mindful of the problem and not just ignore it by taking their dredging projects somewhere that is away from islands that could be hurt. I also think that the government needs to do more about global warming so effects like this can be slowed down as much as possible. I also think that people in general need to be more aware of islands disappearing  so they can make little changes in their lifestyle to keep it from happening.