New Orleans’ JazzFest is being touted as the rebirth of a great American city. “Yet as the tourists tuck in to crawfish Monica and fried turkey po’boys, you can’t help wondering what this joyous celebration at the city’s race track — largely unscathed in the storm — really means. Is it about the rebirth of a community through the power of music — or could it just be the last hurrah of an environmental basket-case which the pessimists are tipping as ‘America’ s Atlantis’, the first city to be drowned by global warming?”