Here Is How Much Of Louisiana Will Disappear, And Here's How Its GOP Congressmen Voted

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History is full of moments when communities facing an existential challenge have two fates. They are saved by courageous leaders who ignore personal risks to show the way. Or they become examples of disastrous, life-ending choices. Climate change has clearly placed Louisiana at one of those crisis points. But, so far, we have chosen that second course and are barreling toward disaster just a few decades away. The evidence of this failure was captured in two headlines from last week’s news:

Louisiana’s GOP congressmen approve pulling U.S. out of Paris Climate Accords.

Climate change jumps to biggest risk for insurers.

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Well, House Resolution 9 passed Congress, but only three GOP reps showed the courage to break with Trump: Vern Buchanan (Fla.), Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.). Meanwhile, none of Louisiana’s five GOP House members voted to keep us in the accord.

Steve Scalise, whose district includes parishes that have already suffered the most land loss and could be basically be submerged by 2067 without emissions controls according to the state’s projections, voted “No.” He was joined in that opinion by Garret Graves, of Baton Rouge, who certainly knows the risks, since he led the state’s coastal plan for several years. Tagging along with “No” were Clay Higgins and Mike Johnson. Ralph Abraham didn’t vote “No” because he didn’t vote at all.

The only support Louisiana got for joining the fight to prevent coastal parishes from being flooded came from Cedric Richmond, of New Orleans. You could argue Richmond is the most unselfish of our House members from the coast because his district is the only one in the state’s projections not flooded in 2067 by future sea level rise – thanks to those new levees.

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https://www.nola.com/opinions/2019/05/attention-louisiana-climate-deniers-insurers-say-climate-change-now-biggest-risk.html

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. 2067 is nearly 40 years down the road.

None of those guys will be around. Humans are exceptionally bad at long term planning, by which I mean anything farther ahead than next month. That's why people buy a latte every day, a new cell phone every year or so, a brand new car every three or four years, and then righteously claim it is simply IMPOSSIBLE to save any money at all.

But I digress. Even as water is lapping at the front doorstep, they are not capable of actually envisioning what it's going to look like five years down the road, let alone 50.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. There's a video around of a place that is being submerged by the sea

saw it on Youtube.....coastal lil bit of land, the sea coming in further and further. Interviews with one of the locals, who is insistent it is not climate change, but that someone has to do something!!! to help with the "erosion" problem.

It's erosion. not rising sea level, he is quite adamant about that. standing on wet ground soaking into his shoes.

I really don't have a clue how to break thru such denial.

[msongs]

2. they will have their hands out for socialist welfare flood control soon enuff nt