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Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans Drown

By Kate AronoffThe New Republic

In the coming decades, New Orleans will be surrounded by ocean. That’s the contention of a paper published this week in Nature Sustainability. It finds that the city has already passed a “point of no return.

” The authors recommend taking immediate action to s…

Rather than planning for a looming inundation exacerbated by climate change, politicians in Louisiana have been busy trying to keep Democrats in majority-Black districts from governing. Republican le…