Louisiana has faced many environmental problems throughout its history. Problems such as shoreline loss, wetlands being destroyed, and oceanic life dying. These problems are because of Hurricane Katrina, human population density, and the oil spill. The hurricane wiped out the region’s shoreline and the oil spill killed many of the oceanic life in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Marquina (2015), a storm like Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster waiting to happen for the state of Louisiana. “Apart from the economic damage that Louisiana would undertake, South Louisiana’s wetlands are also critical nursery areas for commercially important marine species and their fragile habitat is at danger of shrinking even further” (Marquina 2015).
