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Re:The only thing we should be talking about is the climate ... by clankyclanker on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:03AM (#30957902)
Strictly speaking, that’s not wrong: it’s only through the Herculean efforts of the army corps of engineers that New Orleans is as unsubmerged as it is.

Don’t forget Hurricane Harvey: we spent ~$170B cleaning that up. It’s never that we can’t undo climate at a small scale, it’s that doing so may bankrupt entire states in the process.

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Re:The only thing we should be talking about is the climate ... by YATA1 on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:12AM (#30958102)
Strictly speaking, it is wrong: there are several areas of New Orleans that have always been above sea level, Bourbon Street being one of the areas.

Katrina, Harvey, Betsy, 1915, etc. New Orleans is still there. It's not under sea.

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