# @milesbjordan on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C3-MqpOLIuw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20615710-milesbjordan-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0541b866b2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-03-01T12:35:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Miles B Jordan (@MilesBJordan) — https://gondola.cc/MilesBJordan

## Caption

This is 504-907, Faith. 

504-907 exists for a multitude of reasons. None bigger than climate. Although my series isn’t focusing on climate and climate imagery, it is informed by climate. As all of my New Orleanians know, we are the byproduct of man made decisions that have created a city at risk. A city at risk of becoming Atlantis. A city that was the largest in the south for 130 years. A city that we knew and didn’t heed dire warnings in the ‘50s about the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Canal before building it in the ‘60s. A city where unfinished levee walls stood, filled with dredged material from the Mississippi itself, material not up to code. A city where less than two hours away there’s a football field of wetlands lost every 100 minutes. We, I, us, you, whomever stands at the precipice of uncertainty. 

All my same bells ring when I hear about the Ambler project, or the Willow Project with projections of carbon emission that of 78 coal plants in just 50 years. In the same area that the world is heating 4x as fast. In the same area of the world that if disaster strikes not only will no one come, there are actual logistical challenges to serve communities due to the unbelievable vastness of Alaska. Forgive me if that concerns me. 

In considering climate I never have and never will lose track of the man made impact. The ones in this post and even the ones we don’t think of on a daily basis. In keeping that mindset, I focus my camera on the ordinary. The people, their dwellings, and the intimate details that decorate daily life. In doing so, I never lose sight of human’s role and impact. 

In this particular image, we do see the impact of climate on south Louisiana. Philosophically I don’t enjoy explaining images but this one is important. The dying, drowning church is in the Mississippi River delta. In an area of the delta that within lived memory had swathes of land, land that necessitated a place of worship. Now in every direction there is water. 

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