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Is it the real reason? Or somebody just made it up? Because for sure there are engineering solutions to this problem.
It's one, but you aren't supposed to build that close to the wetland. Like a drain in a house, just because, you should always want water to go somewhere if its on the floor else would have long term problems. Part of the reason street roads are not flat.
The image is the equivalent of choosing to build a house on low tide. and wouldn't realistically happen.
There are cities built on top of former wetlands. And they are fine. Sure, a proper drainage required, and sometimes dam/barrier, but it is doable.
My country is basically a continuous mountain range. We've had massive floodings because of heavy rain due to climate change. It is the floodplains, controlled rivers and wetlands that gets hit the worst
I've got some prime real estate in New Orleans to sell you.
If not for hurricanes, it would be fine.
Is that so? Then I've got some prime real estate in New Orleans to sell you.
Yes, it is so.
But thats a pretty big, 'if not'. Its 'if not for the totally predictable thing thats been happening in this area semi-reliably for longer than our civilisation has existed and we are totally unable to stop'
There are a couple of great "practical engineering" videos on the topic of you're interested:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UBivwxBgdPQ&si=4gPaAIjc_Lpr9mXh
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vLZElIYHmAI&si=LN61GGBKK88oImkF