As climate change erodes land and health, one Louisiana tribe fights back | Food and Environment Reporting Network
<p>Devon Parfait steers his truck into the parking lot of what used to be a firehouse on Shrimpers Row in Dulac, Louisiana. He tries to get his bearings in a landscape both familiar and strange. He spies a bayou down a side street, so we walk in that direction, searching for traces of the home his family fled as Hurricane Rita barreled in. Back then, in 2005, Parfait was a second grader who collected Ranger Rick Zoobooks. Today he’s a 25-year-old coastal scientist with a mop of curls, a nose ring, and a puzzled look in his brown eyes.</p>
<p>“I’m scanning through the memory of all my old neurons,” he tells me. “Maybe this <em>is</em> it. Maybe it really has just changed so much I don’t even recognize it.”</p>
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