Federico Bordonaro

Susan Saulny, sul New York Times di oggi, scrive:

From across the economic spectrum, whether with heavy hearts or with optimism, the hundreds of thousands of people who fled the wrath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans are already putting down roots in new cities. If even a fraction of them decide not to return, the migration threatens a population crash that could be nearly as devastating to the New Orleans area as the storm itself.

In poche parole, l’intera area di N.O. rischia di veder calare bruscamente la propria demografia, per tempi lunghi; le conseguenze economiche e sociali sarebbero “devastanti”.

Interessante notare, tuttavia, che tale fatto andrebbe nel senso della tendenza in atto dal 1960:

Since its population peaked at almost 630,000 in 1960, New Orleans has been steadily losing its people. According to the last census, 445,000 people lived there. But a trickle of people over the decades is quite a different matter from what the city now faces, a sudden population bust that could subtract up to 250,000 people.