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New Orleans braces for drinking water emergency from drought-stricken Mississippi River
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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