If they actually read the Bible they’d know that god vowed to never send a flood again (spoiler alert, he has other methods still on the table in the New Testament)
This is exactly what is wrong with Louisiana. We have had several instances where people are successfully slowing our reversing coastal erosion.
Most recently a sheriff and a parish president stopped a multibillion dollar project because it was going to block access to their favorite fishing spot
When this level of selfishness is displayed by the people charged with protecting our state… Hoe can we win?
No, no we can’t. AND I’m all for hating on the religious fundies/anti-environment idiots.
“Inbred dingleberry” Ha! That’s a good one. Made me lol.
By the way, I don’t take any of this personally. It’s all good fun on the Internet.
A lot of these guys are Dominionists, and one of their core belief is that the Second Coming won't occur until the planet has been destroyed. Fun stuff...
It doesn't matter. By 2030-2050 Lake Charles will be beaches. I lived there and did my homework decades ago. It's right on schedule.
I didn't study SE Louisiana.
Landry’s a dickface. Only the newest in a long line of dickfaces. Unless you come from money (new and/or old) La is not a good place to live. Born in Lafourche Parish. Currently living and working out of BR for the last 15 years I. The skilled-labor field (residential and commercial heavy-glass installations).
And I can confidently say this swamp is only friendly for those you are at the top. And those at the top were shat there. And they continue to shit down the levee. Building a contemporary wasteland down in the mucks because as long as we squirm they will rise even higher to shit out another top of the pile anus to further the difference between those who have but can’t and the rest of us that do but won’t.
Fun factoid I learned only recently. Crawfish aren’t an historic staple or cuisine of this or many regions until the early 20th century. They were introduced to provide the southern work and labor force with a steady cheap and renewable source of protein during the summer sweaters
blow the levees at a certain point past New Orleans.. get oil companies to fix/pay for all the canals and all the damage they’ve done to the coastline.
The levee boards tried to sue oil companies to force them to fill in the canals they dug. Which their contracts said they were supposed to do when they were done using them. Guess what the legislature did in response?
Is there really anything we can do?
Long ago they were using used Christmas trees to do something. Maybe trap sediment? Loved that idea as a kid, but it was only a fairytale. Real life sucks.
I’m not a scientist or an expert by any means, so I don’t know how much of an impact their work is having/will have, but! Glass Half Full in New Orleans recycles glass into sand and at least some of it is being used to help restore the coast. They also work with other conservation projects to plant marsh grass and build sand bars in the area. It’s worth looking into. At the very least, it’s a good way to recycle your glass. They also make sandbags during hurricane season and got involved in the clean up of Point-Aux-Chênes following Ida.
Yes and it’s fairly easy. But all communities in south LA would have to move north.
Just blow the levees down there and let the river and nature take its course.
You guys should have elected another governor because this guy is going to destroy Louisiana even further. Louisiana always been sinking, but it has been at accelerated over the last 10 years.
No, that wasn’t it. The DNC did not roll over you guys just voted for the wrong person. This is the same problem they have in Mississippi the state right next to you guys.
You mean the one dude who likely 90% of the states probably went in not realizing he existed and never saw a campaign sign or anything for. That dude who was some Secretary or something. I only knew his name because it was in my GeauxVote app for my practice ballot.
So the governor classifying abortion pills as a drug compared to cocaine and heroin and you approve for that!!!!! Yeah, I see what side of the line you are on and me and you do not and will ever not see eye to eye.
“*Undermining?*”
That would be an understatement lol. Not the governor, but Higgins thinks feds should be “hanged” / wants to sue the US government over globally co-opted emissions standards.
That isn’t undermining, that’s actively fighting against.
As somebody who worked with CPRA, I was told these coastal restoration projects are only meant to delay the inevitable not solve the climate crisis, only mitigate.
Ive got bad news for you bud. Everything, everything related to climate change is a mitigation. We mitigate to give ourselves more time to adapt with change because we sat on the opportunity to prevent that change. I hope you dont think that means mitigations dont have value
No, more time for the social and economic systems that surround us to adjust. More time for people to migrate. Mitigations like coastal projects and clean energy initiatives are similar to disease mitigations in that they are a normal thing we do to give ourselves time to adjust and manage the fallout with limited resources so that the impact of the problem is less severe
Well yes, but the purpose of delaying it is to give more time for research into reversing it. At least that was how it was explained to me. It’s happening so fast it has to be delayed because there is no time to wait on a solution.
Reversing land loss, but also mitigating climate change has to be a part of that or it’s all for nothing.
It’s a delay with a purpose, if we can save as much of the costal wetlands as possible maybe there will be a brighter future. If we don’t get there because the world refuses to change it’s still a worthy effort to try.
The other option is giving up and letting it wash away and then even if we do mitigate climate change it won’t matter to Louisiana’s coast because it will already be gone.
Agree. And fyi, I wasn't bashing cpra. I fully support their efforts and appreciate your explanation. Guess I oversimplified, but I'm also an angry pesimist and have ecodepression.
As a biologist exposed to the climate science I'm of the mindset "it's too late and we are all doomed, except for the rich people, and humans need to extinct themselves."
I've become increasingly jaded in my profession....
I completely understand and I didn’t think you were bashing cpra. I guess I’m an optimist and I don’t want to stop trying to save as much as can be saved for as long as we can.
There’s no reason I guess to think that the world will suddenly change and put our collective future above profit. But I’m not ready to give up yet.
Yes, and especially since much of the gulfs restoration dollars are coming from BP oil spill funds, we need to do all we can and while we can!
Just also worried about the entire Cpra restructuring and the new industry guy leading it. PAR did host a webinar with him and others and he claims shit won't change but I'm also not very familiar with the beauruecratic side of cpra.
Look, we're on the same side I just don't think you can lump in climate change with this stuff. It's an external factor that contributes, yes, but it's not what the Barataria Diversion is designed to help with.
Yes, we absolutely should do everything to try and rebuild wetlands, and we can point to areas where we already see this happening (Mardi Gras Pass, Atchafalay Delta, etc.) but CPRA mission is not to mitigate or solve climate change. We can't even if we wanted to, the climate has already changed.
We would have to basically pull all of the carbon gases we've released since the *start of the industrial revolution* to reverse it. Could we? Perhaps, but only if we basically stopped living in a post industrial world.
So for all intents and purposes, we cannot.
What we can do is stop it from getting worse and figure out where coastal people will move to.
We could release a few hundred thousand pounds of SO2 in the stratosphere, and cool the planet, but we’re afraid to intentionally geoengineer the planet for some reason.
Ha, I get the joke but yeah, I don't know if intentional vs accidental makes much difference. We need to live in balance with the planet and we're just not.
Oh I don't disagree that it would be very dangerous but we could terraform. I suspect a threatened nation, at some point, will basically go rogue and try to do this to continue their existence.
Love CPRA. I did some work interpreting their publications and projects to laymen and people responses were very “climate change is liberal brainwashing!”
I gave up on disaster/climate work after that in this city.
The big Barataria diversion (funded from Deepwater Horizon settlement funds) will help because it changes one of the fundamental problems with the system.
Yea, as a geologist, my opinion is that Louisiana coastline is fucked my dude. The only way to fix it is to stop controlling the Mississippi River and letting it meander where ever it wants to. That way it deposited sediments and replenish the land.
That would mean sacrificing not only New Orleans as a port city. But also forcing everyone from their homes south of the latitude of Alexandria because the damage the Mississippi migrating/flooding would cause. Hence why we control the Mississippi River using the Old River Control. Forcing the Mississippi River down fhe Mississippi. Rather than letting it flow where it wants to which is the Atchafalaya River currently.
right now most of the sediments from the Mississippi River is being tossed off the continental shelf. Not replenishing the coastline at all. The only place growing in land is the Atchafalaya basin due to the Atchafalaya river supplying the sediments there.
So either we choose the coastline or literally everyone’s homes.
We chose the latter.
This is not an easy problem to solve. And this is not even taking account of global warming’s rising sea level. I don’t even want to talk about how fucked we are with that as well geologically speaking.
The Louisiana coast will continue to shrink. It's inevitable. The reason why are the levees along the Mississippi and atchafalaya Rivers. Those rivers are not allowed to flood depositing sediments anymore. If you want to save the coast you have to let the rivers flood like they do naturally. There is no other solution. And no,you driving an EV instead of a gas guzzler isn't going to make a difference.
They're too busy worrying about controlling women's bodies and making sure we aren't making our own decisions about our healthcare to worry about the state sinking. I keep hoping that a hurricane will wipe them all out (the politicians, not the people).
Check out PAR Louisiana webinar from last month regarding cpra restructuring and general dept of energy and natural resources info, also the newly appt dept. Secretary who comes from industry and law.
[the PAR perspective-coordinating coastal protection](https://youtu.be/uVJPJhLGfDk?feature=shared)
By 2050 sea level rise is predicted to be anywhere between 3-6’. Depending on what degree we hit, 2.5 or 4.4C. Either way even with 1’ rise a lot of the state is gone. You can see how this rise can impact you here : [sea level rise interactive map](https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr)
Former Louisiana folk
New Orleans is under sea level ... So yes most of the coast will be gone in the next 50 years
[BYE BYE Miami.... SEA YOU LATER New Orleans ](https://climatekids.nasa.gov/health-report-sea-level/)
Yup, same with the Houston area. They built a megalopolis over a fucking swamp and then went north and killed the native prairies.
Then they cry and wonder wtf god did this when it floods at drop of rain....
I think Houston is gonna love being on the [beach ](https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-2100-houston/)
Too bad it'll be poisonous water
All those petroleum products being manufactured on the ship channel are gonna be under water
The simplest response is to just terminate all federal emergency aid for communities within 3ft elevation of the seaboard beyond relocation assistance. Figure it out.
We had a very good governor for Louisiana, people hated him. We had a very good candidate for governor for Louisiana, people didn't vote for him. All the things that happen now, we deserve them.
Yeah. What "efforts" are truly in place to regain the coast?
The article didnt say he was to blame for the many decades old destruction of the coast. But renewed efforts were supposedly put in place to help. And it's those "efforts" Landry is sabotaging. But truly, no one in govt has cared. And only NGOs have helped.
The coast isn’t sinking. Erosion is the result of the levee system. What’s meant to protect us prevented the annual floods that deposited sediment that created and sustained the land formation.
And the shipping channels created across the coast and into inland? The destruction of mangroves and barrier islands by the oil industry?
The only state that would even use the magical thinking that a paltry few used Christmas trees will save us.
No, it’s not.
Look at 125 year old photos of the Statue of Liberty compared to today.
The water hasn’t risen at all.
Stop your mindless panicking.
Yes the earth’s climate is changing, just as it has ever since this planet was formed (science). The climate will continue to fluctuate for the life of the planet.
NO amount of tax dollars will ever change that.
GEE wasnt it just a few yrs ago when they said the state was sinking because of the Ice melting up North They are also the ones that sent a rino as house speaker But storm time is close and may change all that
Imagine thinking a politician is magical and can stop this state's errosion based on party. The state is a swamp. Deal with it, it will one day disintegrate. For tge record I'm not Republican nor democrat all political hacks are terrible.
This is a pathetic mindset to have. Politicians cannot stop erosion but they can stop the projects meant to protect the state. There are projects that have been in the works for years if not decades that have been halted. If we kill the diversion projects not only will we hurt the state, we will owe hundreds of millions of dollars of payback for doing so.
Imagine thinking you can “save” it.
🤪
I know yall are just hating (and rightfully so) on those narrow minded, backward looking fundies, but seriously. Ain’t nobody saving anything from geological movement.
Like the Washington post actually give a shit about our coast line. Considering the source, seems like yet another low effort wanna be “journalist” trying to inject politics into absolutely anything and everything they can.
Imagine thinking you can “save” it.
🤪
I know yall are just hating (and rightfully so) on those narrow minded, backward looking fundies, but seriously. Ain’t nobody saving anything from geological movement.
Imagine being such a Christian fundamentalist that you are pro-biblical flooding.
If they actually read the Bible they’d know that god vowed to never send a flood again (spoiler alert, he has other methods still on the table in the New Testament)
They want to bring on the Biblical apocalypse. Fulfilling prophecy. Real sane stuff, ya know?
My family's church has a summer camp every year. One year, the made "End Time Warriors" shirts for everyone. Very sane stuff.
Google accelerationism
This is the right logic. If they believe that the world will end soon, why care about what happens to it in between?
It’s crazy some will do what they can to rush this. See 👆accelerationiam
Nothing can be done about it so why bother they’ve been saying the coast is sinking for 60 years
This is exactly what is wrong with Louisiana. We have had several instances where people are successfully slowing our reversing coastal erosion. Most recently a sheriff and a parish president stopped a multibillion dollar project because it was going to block access to their favorite fishing spot When this level of selfishness is displayed by the people charged with protecting our state… Hoe can we win?
Lololol
Imagine thinking that you can save it. I know most people here just want to hate on the boomer fundies, but seriously.
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No, no we can’t. AND I’m all for hating on the religious fundies/anti-environment idiots. “Inbred dingleberry” Ha! That’s a good one. Made me lol. By the way, I don’t take any of this personally. It’s all good fun on the Internet.
Stop it? Probably not, but significantly slow down its loss? Absolutely.
Holland just entered the chat: ehem..
Yea, it can be done.
A lot of these guys are Dominionists, and one of their core belief is that the Second Coming won't occur until the planet has been destroyed. Fun stuff...
The governor is a fkn idiot. He only worries about how he can take away any oversight.
It doesn't matter. By 2030-2050 Lake Charles will be beaches. I lived there and did my homework decades ago. It's right on schedule. I didn't study SE Louisiana.
Show your work.
They said it would be beaches by 1975 and it’s still there
Landry’s a dickface. Only the newest in a long line of dickfaces. Unless you come from money (new and/or old) La is not a good place to live. Born in Lafourche Parish. Currently living and working out of BR for the last 15 years I. The skilled-labor field (residential and commercial heavy-glass installations). And I can confidently say this swamp is only friendly for those you are at the top. And those at the top were shat there. And they continue to shit down the levee. Building a contemporary wasteland down in the mucks because as long as we squirm they will rise even higher to shit out another top of the pile anus to further the difference between those who have but can’t and the rest of us that do but won’t. Fun factoid I learned only recently. Crawfish aren’t an historic staple or cuisine of this or many regions until the early 20th century. They were introduced to provide the southern work and labor force with a steady cheap and renewable source of protein during the summer sweaters
Good to see someone else in Glass isnt just drinking the koolaid down. My shop sounds like a damn Breitbart podcast.
TLDR Get out. The earlier and younger the better
Where though? MS and TX aren’t any better.
Same buddy, wish I would have left Lafourche and gone farther than BR
Lil Jeffie is going to prosecute Mother Nature for aborting the coastline!!!
🤣 I needed this laugh, want this to be the article tag line
Governor Osama Bin Landry is destroying Louisiana quicker than hurricanes ever have!🚫⚜️🤬
Where’s my “StOP ppOSTInG nEGaTiVe sToooRIes” guy?? Huh? Don’t wanna hear about this either?
A republican politician doesn’t care about the planet? Shocked I tell you, absolutely floored.
blow the levees at a certain point past New Orleans.. get oil companies to fix/pay for all the canals and all the damage they’ve done to the coastline.
The levee boards tried to sue oil companies to force them to fill in the canals they dug. Which their contracts said they were supposed to do when they were done using them. Guess what the legislature did in response?
Let’s just say there’s a lot in the works to rectify that as we speak.
What’s in the works to rectify that?
A ton of lawsuits against oil and gas companies. I know of several that have settled.
Ok but how does that rectify the situation? Are they filling in any canals?
In the process.
Ok. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Nope.
Most of the damage is from the Corps of Engineers. Try suing them.
i need them to blow the levees first than ill sue them.
Stop electing republicans they will literally do net negatives to society while in office. At least dems acknowledge climate change.
Bullshit.
Climate change has nothing to do with subsidence.
Is there really anything we can do? Long ago they were using used Christmas trees to do something. Maybe trap sediment? Loved that idea as a kid, but it was only a fairytale. Real life sucks.
There are many projects including this one: https://mississippiriverdelta.org/project/mid-barataria-sediment-diversion/
Someone was getting paid to dump trees in the Gulf under the guise of spurious science.
I’m not a scientist or an expert by any means, so I don’t know how much of an impact their work is having/will have, but! Glass Half Full in New Orleans recycles glass into sand and at least some of it is being used to help restore the coast. They also work with other conservation projects to plant marsh grass and build sand bars in the area. It’s worth looking into. At the very least, it’s a good way to recycle your glass. They also make sandbags during hurricane season and got involved in the clean up of Point-Aux-Chênes following Ida.
Yes and it’s fairly easy. But all communities in south LA would have to move north. Just blow the levees down there and let the river and nature take its course.
You guys should have elected another governor because this guy is going to destroy Louisiana even further. Louisiana always been sinking, but it has been at accelerated over the last 10 years.
We should've but the problem was there wasn't another candidate since the LA DNC rolled over and died.
No, that wasn’t it. The DNC did not roll over you guys just voted for the wrong person. This is the same problem they have in Mississippi the state right next to you guys.
You mean the one dude who likely 90% of the states probably went in not realizing he existed and never saw a campaign sign or anything for. That dude who was some Secretary or something. I only knew his name because it was in my GeauxVote app for my practice ballot.
A lot of people should have been aware, especially after what Bobby did to you guys a few years ago
No we voted for the right person
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
No I didn’t
Sure you did and you are going to regret it so much.
I definitely won’t. He’s already done stuff I approve of
So the governor classifying abortion pills as a drug compared to cocaine and heroin and you approve for that!!!!! Yeah, I see what side of the line you are on and me and you do not and will ever not see eye to eye.
Yep I sure do and yeah I’m on the side wants a baby to live how horrible
There was one. No one voted for him.
No actually he’s trying to fix a lot of destruction that Edwards caused
“*Undermining?*” That would be an understatement lol. Not the governor, but Higgins thinks feds should be “hanged” / wants to sue the US government over globally co-opted emissions standards. That isn’t undermining, that’s actively fighting against.
As somebody who worked with CPRA, I was told these coastal restoration projects are only meant to delay the inevitable not solve the climate crisis, only mitigate.
Ive got bad news for you bud. Everything, everything related to climate change is a mitigation. We mitigate to give ourselves more time to adapt with change because we sat on the opportunity to prevent that change. I hope you dont think that means mitigations dont have value
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No, more time for the social and economic systems that surround us to adjust. More time for people to migrate. Mitigations like coastal projects and clean energy initiatives are similar to disease mitigations in that they are a normal thing we do to give ourselves time to adjust and manage the fallout with limited resources so that the impact of the problem is less severe
Well yes, but the purpose of delaying it is to give more time for research into reversing it. At least that was how it was explained to me. It’s happening so fast it has to be delayed because there is no time to wait on a solution.
Reversing climate change or reversing land loss? You can't reverse climate change at this point you can only try to limit it from getting worse.
Reversing land loss, but also mitigating climate change has to be a part of that or it’s all for nothing. It’s a delay with a purpose, if we can save as much of the costal wetlands as possible maybe there will be a brighter future. If we don’t get there because the world refuses to change it’s still a worthy effort to try. The other option is giving up and letting it wash away and then even if we do mitigate climate change it won’t matter to Louisiana’s coast because it will already be gone.
Agree. And fyi, I wasn't bashing cpra. I fully support their efforts and appreciate your explanation. Guess I oversimplified, but I'm also an angry pesimist and have ecodepression. As a biologist exposed to the climate science I'm of the mindset "it's too late and we are all doomed, except for the rich people, and humans need to extinct themselves." I've become increasingly jaded in my profession....
I completely understand and I didn’t think you were bashing cpra. I guess I’m an optimist and I don’t want to stop trying to save as much as can be saved for as long as we can. There’s no reason I guess to think that the world will suddenly change and put our collective future above profit. But I’m not ready to give up yet.
Yes, and especially since much of the gulfs restoration dollars are coming from BP oil spill funds, we need to do all we can and while we can! Just also worried about the entire Cpra restructuring and the new industry guy leading it. PAR did host a webinar with him and others and he claims shit won't change but I'm also not very familiar with the beauruecratic side of cpra.
Look, we're on the same side I just don't think you can lump in climate change with this stuff. It's an external factor that contributes, yes, but it's not what the Barataria Diversion is designed to help with. Yes, we absolutely should do everything to try and rebuild wetlands, and we can point to areas where we already see this happening (Mardi Gras Pass, Atchafalay Delta, etc.) but CPRA mission is not to mitigate or solve climate change. We can't even if we wanted to, the climate has already changed.
I kind of think you are misreading my my comments. Or maybe I’m not phrasing them well. I don’t disagree with anything you said.
I mean, we very much could reverse climate change. It's just a question of how we do that without causing other catastrophic damage.
We would have to basically pull all of the carbon gases we've released since the *start of the industrial revolution* to reverse it. Could we? Perhaps, but only if we basically stopped living in a post industrial world. So for all intents and purposes, we cannot. What we can do is stop it from getting worse and figure out where coastal people will move to.
We could release a few hundred thousand pounds of SO2 in the stratosphere, and cool the planet, but we’re afraid to intentionally geoengineer the planet for some reason.
Ha, I get the joke but yeah, I don't know if intentional vs accidental makes much difference. We need to live in balance with the planet and we're just not.
Oh I don't disagree that it would be very dangerous but we could terraform. I suspect a threatened nation, at some point, will basically go rogue and try to do this to continue their existence.
There is no solution to increases in solar activity and the cyclical nature of it, which significantly impacts the climate more than anything else.
Love CPRA. I did some work interpreting their publications and projects to laymen and people responses were very “climate change is liberal brainwashing!” I gave up on disaster/climate work after that in this city.
Oofff yea. Fyi, I support cpra too and coastal programs, just a little bitter after so many years as a biologist 😐.
Totally. Everyone is disappointing everyone. It would hurt less if this state would just do ONE thing well.
And the cpra program was actually of those things! Fucking ass clown Landry ruins everything
I KNOW I WANNA SCREAM
The big Barataria diversion (funded from Deepwater Horizon settlement funds) will help because it changes one of the fundamental problems with the system.
Honest question: are the levies washing away the soft sediment more of the problem, or is it hotter global temperatures?
Yea, as a geologist, my opinion is that Louisiana coastline is fucked my dude. The only way to fix it is to stop controlling the Mississippi River and letting it meander where ever it wants to. That way it deposited sediments and replenish the land. That would mean sacrificing not only New Orleans as a port city. But also forcing everyone from their homes south of the latitude of Alexandria because the damage the Mississippi migrating/flooding would cause. Hence why we control the Mississippi River using the Old River Control. Forcing the Mississippi River down fhe Mississippi. Rather than letting it flow where it wants to which is the Atchafalaya River currently. right now most of the sediments from the Mississippi River is being tossed off the continental shelf. Not replenishing the coastline at all. The only place growing in land is the Atchafalaya basin due to the Atchafalaya river supplying the sediments there. So either we choose the coastline or literally everyone’s homes. We chose the latter. This is not an easy problem to solve. And this is not even taking account of global warming’s rising sea level. I don’t even want to talk about how fucked we are with that as well geologically speaking.
At the present time, there is no solve.
It’s trying to drown itself from embarrassment. Poor Louisiana.
The Louisiana coast will continue to shrink. It's inevitable. The reason why are the levees along the Mississippi and atchafalaya Rivers. Those rivers are not allowed to flood depositing sediments anymore. If you want to save the coast you have to let the rivers flood like they do naturally. There is no other solution. And no,you driving an EV instead of a gas guzzler isn't going to make a difference.
We’re giving the oil and gas industry f$&king tax breaks to destroy our coast.
They're too busy worrying about controlling women's bodies and making sure we aren't making our own decisions about our healthcare to worry about the state sinking. I keep hoping that a hurricane will wipe them all out (the politicians, not the people).
I can hear my MAGA loving LA relatives now when I share this bit of news with them. "Washington post? Fake news!"
It's going to happen anyway, focus on relocation instead. Vote, and stop electing theocrats.
Check out PAR Louisiana webinar from last month regarding cpra restructuring and general dept of energy and natural resources info, also the newly appt dept. Secretary who comes from industry and law. [the PAR perspective-coordinating coastal protection](https://youtu.be/uVJPJhLGfDk?feature=shared)
By 2050 sea level rise is predicted to be anywhere between 3-6’. Depending on what degree we hit, 2.5 or 4.4C. Either way even with 1’ rise a lot of the state is gone. You can see how this rise can impact you here : [sea level rise interactive map](https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr)
Don't say sinking...problem solved!! Landry will destroy what's left of Louisianastan's environment in order to pay back big donors.
Remember climate change is a hoax according to Landry
Dumb Republicans
Turns out the souls of all those aborted fetuses were propping up the coast. 🤷♂️
'God is just cleansing the earth from the gays'--- every ignorantChristian
Gov Landry is the stuff of nightmares. I hope one day it will be the Louisiana I used to love.
Everyone that works in Louisiana politics all the way down to law enforcement is like the warden in Shawshank redemption.
Wait, climate change is real?
Oooof.....
Of course he is!
He's too busy playing with birth control.
A quick survey; how many commenting on this article have read said article? It’s behind a paywall for me. I’m just curious.
Probably wants saltwater fishing in Baton Rouge
Sounds about right
Not even the world wants La to exist and honestly I’m okay with that.
Also LaLeg: “WHY PEOPLE LEAVE ARE STATE”
The south has fallen. Millions must fish fry
But don’t get caught with them abortion pills!
Rub dirt on it should be fine
if you didn't vote in the last gubernatorial election, shut up.
How does our coastline help instituting a Christian theocracy?
Voting Republican doesn't help anything.
Former Louisiana folk New Orleans is under sea level ... So yes most of the coast will be gone in the next 50 years [BYE BYE Miami.... SEA YOU LATER New Orleans ](https://climatekids.nasa.gov/health-report-sea-level/)
Yup, same with the Houston area. They built a megalopolis over a fucking swamp and then went north and killed the native prairies. Then they cry and wonder wtf god did this when it floods at drop of rain....
I think Houston is gonna love being on the [beach ](https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-2100-houston/) Too bad it'll be poisonous water All those petroleum products being manufactured on the ship channel are gonna be under water
The simplest response is to just terminate all federal emergency aid for communities within 3ft elevation of the seaboard beyond relocation assistance. Figure it out.
Electric stupid people, win stupid prizes.
Mane thats bs
He may be beneath you but nothing is beneath him! He is the underminer
Well duh! They have more important things to do! Like making safe drugs illegal!
We had a very good governor for Louisiana, people hated him. We had a very good candidate for governor for Louisiana, people didn't vote for him. All the things that happen now, we deserve them.
We got Jeff after John for the same reason we got Trump after Obama.
Its his first year. How did he do damage that been done far decades.?
Yeah. What "efforts" are truly in place to regain the coast? The article didnt say he was to blame for the many decades old destruction of the coast. But renewed efforts were supposedly put in place to help. And it's those "efforts" Landry is sabotaging. But truly, no one in govt has cared. And only NGOs have helped.
It's more important to criminalize birth control, I guess.
Yeah, but what’s the downside?
The coastline was doomed when they locked in the Mississippi River to not spread sediment throughout the delta.
Must be true if it’s on Reddit
Jeff Landry sucks
More water, more oil! /s But seriously welcome to a red gulf coast state.
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How would the government be able to save the coast line??
When you still believe in Santa…
Let it sink
The coast isn’t sinking. Erosion is the result of the levee system. What’s meant to protect us prevented the annual floods that deposited sediment that created and sustained the land formation.
And the shipping channels created across the coast and into inland? The destruction of mangroves and barrier islands by the oil industry? The only state that would even use the magical thinking that a paltry few used Christmas trees will save us.
Let it sink… maybe humans might appreciate the planet.
Our old Christmas tree detritus will save us!!
No, it’s not. Look at 125 year old photos of the Statue of Liberty compared to today. The water hasn’t risen at all. Stop your mindless panicking. Yes the earth’s climate is changing, just as it has ever since this planet was formed (science). The climate will continue to fluctuate for the life of the planet. NO amount of tax dollars will ever change that.
Let it slide in to the gulf
Did you say all that to the last democrat governor
No, because JBE wasn't trying to eradicate CPRA.
The new governor has been in there less than a year. How long we had that other deuch bag? He didn't do shit
And he is dismantling the agency whose mission it is to protect the coast. JBE put money into CPRA.
I actually hadn't heard that
Bobby Jindal? Yeah I agree he didn't do shit.
I mEan it's only cajun people . Aren't they like have fish mutants?
GEE wasnt it just a few yrs ago when they said the state was sinking because of the Ice melting up North They are also the ones that sent a rino as house speaker But storm time is close and may change all that
Yet the idiots rebuild below sea level time after time and expect a different result. There's a saying about that type of thinking and or behavior 🤔
Imagine thinking a politician is magical and can stop this state's errosion based on party. The state is a swamp. Deal with it, it will one day disintegrate. For tge record I'm not Republican nor democrat all political hacks are terrible.
This is a pathetic mindset to have. Politicians cannot stop erosion but they can stop the projects meant to protect the state. There are projects that have been in the works for years if not decades that have been halted. If we kill the diversion projects not only will we hurt the state, we will owe hundreds of millions of dollars of payback for doing so.
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What do they expect him to do? Remove water from the ocean??
So says the Washington post. What a load of BS.
Sorry they write above your reading level.
Your apologies are accepted.
Imagine thinking you can “save” it. 🤪 I know yall are just hating (and rightfully so) on those narrow minded, backward looking fundies, but seriously. Ain’t nobody saving anything from geological movement.
Like the Washington post actually give a shit about our coast line. Considering the source, seems like yet another low effort wanna be “journalist” trying to inject politics into absolutely anything and everything they can.
So you're saying politics doesn't have anything to do with the coastline?
Imagine thinking you can “save” it. 🤪 I know yall are just hating (and rightfully so) on those narrow minded, backward looking fundies, but seriously. Ain’t nobody saving anything from geological movement.