Slashdot Mirror
Louisiana's Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline (npr.org)
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency over the state's rapidly eroding coastline. From a report on NPR: It's an effort to bring nationwide attention to the issue and speed up the federal permitting process for coastal restoration projects. "Decades of saltwater intrusion, subsidence and rising sea levels have made the Louisiana coast the nation's most rapidly deteriorating shoreline," WWNO's Travis Lux tells our Newscast unit. "It loses the equivalent of one football field of land every hour." More than half of the state's population lives on the coast, the declaration states. It adds that the pace of erosion is getting faster: "more than 1,800 square miles of land between 1932 and 2010, including 300 square miles of marshland between 2004 and 2008 alone."
Don't worry, carbon taxes will fix it. Carbon taxes can fix all environmental problems.
But how many libraries of congress of land every hour is that?
I can't believe all you idiots believe this is actually happening. What a bunch of libtard climate-change believing fuck-muffins you are! Lucky for me I'm a diehard Republican through and through, so I'm busily buying up all this supposedly disappearing land. I stand to make billions!
Haha, same reaction here.
Democrats need to learn how to be dicks like Republicans are.
Next time Democrats are in control, they should cut off all funding to that red state for their pwecious coastlines. After all, global warming is a hoax, so they should be fine, and the invisible hand will provide, amirite?