I don’t know if you’ve ever been to an industrial coast but I assure you, they will do a lot to protect themselves while not doing anything positive for the residents of Louisiana. Oil executives and energy traders in Houston will reap the benefits while Louisiana gets a handful of mostly blue collar jobs in exchange for oil spills, cancer, destruction of wetlands, and climate refugees from rising sea levels.

I’m with you, but this is Louisiana. Sea wall is pretty standard fare for a company that wants to last more than a few years and not piss their whole income away to hurricane insurance.