Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans Drown
By Kate Aronoff••The 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…