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New Orleans braces for drinking water emergency from drought-stricken Mississippi River
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Haha, how does our state leadership feel about climate change? Back in Texas they still pretend it's not real.
John Bel Edwards, Has put a great amount of care. 2 issues though: 1, the state Senate and 2, other states. Louisiana is " the asshole of the US" in a very literal sense. As a result we have to deal with the pollution from over 100 million people in 19 states directly. Policy under Edwards has been rather pro protection of the bayou. That's all Louisiana can do. Louisiana doesn't emit a lot of emissions, and Louisianas main export isn't even oil any more, its soybeans. Blaming Louisiana for climate change is like blaming the kid being bullied for the bullies.
Does Louisiana still vote GOP in House, Senate, and presidential elections? Then they're still one of the climate (and LGBTQ and racial and class and...) bullies.
??????? We aren't talking about that? Your moral grand standing is not productive. We are discussing climate change, nothing else.
??? Republicans have a way worse record on climate action than Democrats?
Joke on you Louisiana has no economy to take action on in the first place. Also I already covered that earlier. I'm not repeating.
I'm not talking about action at the state level, I'm talking about the federal level. The United States is the largest economy in the world, but we constantly struggle to make headway on climate goals primarily because the Republicans in Congress (and back when Trump was president, the White House) constantly undermine those efforts. To be clear, Democrats are no climate champions, but they are at least trying to do something, vs the Republicans who actively try to worsen the climate crisis simply because they think it will piss off liberals. Thus every time Louisiana sends a Republican senator (currently 2 of 2) or representative (currently 5 of 6) or electorate (2020 election: 8 of 8) to Washington DC, they're making the climate crisis worse by helping to paralyze the United States government.
You can be both a victim and a bully: it's called voting against your own interests and it's something red states are notorious for doing.
......not what I am talking about again I am not going to respond to aganda spread
“Louisiana: At least we’re not Mississippi.”
I'm not blaming us... We are going to be hit by the effects more than a lot of states so we better start trying to mitigate stuff. Also just learned we are about to be drinking saltwater because of a drought north of us 😭
Edit: LOL, I learned about that here! Sorry I'm tired.
You're still in america, son.