The Veneto Po Delta – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – is a vast natural area in northern Italy where the Po River meets the Adriatic Sea near Venice. Spanning 18,000 hectares, it supports a community of about 73,000 people. Human settlements have had to adapt to the ever-changing morphology of a landscape shaped by the interaction of river, land, and sea, constantly threatened by floods and subsidence. The local population has passively suffered exploitation—from Venetian aristocrats to methane extraction and the unfulfilled promises of a 1950s thermoelectric power plant. Today, the community seeks redemption through the sustainable redevelopment of the former plant into an eco-friendly tourism model. However, climate change poses severe threats, including the uncontrolled spread of blue crabs, saltwater intrusion, and drought emergencies affecting rice crops, with the looming risk of submersion by 2050—underscoring the urgent need to protect both the environment and the community.