Posted on 05/03/2016 4:42:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. - A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change.
With a first-of-its-kind "climate resilience" grant to resettle the island's native residents, Washington is ready to help.
"Yes, this is our grandpa's land," Ms. Bourg said. "But it's going under one way or another."
In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems.
One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. The divisions the effort has exposed and the logistical and moral dilemmas it has presented point up in microcosm the massive problems the world could face in the coming decades as it confronts a new category of displaced people who have become known as climate refugees.
A vast majority of the $1 billion disaster-resilience grant program is spent on projects to improve infrastructure, like stronger roads, bridges, dams, levees and drainage systems, to withstand rising seas and stronger storms.
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To verify, you believe in man-caused global warming?
“No, you are wrong. Conservation and pollution issues began on the right.”
I thought you were going into some discourse on older conservative history like the National Parks or the Grange Movement or the silver standard. But instead, you lost me when you associated the G.O.P. with conservativism.
Very little the G.O.P. has done these past decades is conservative, much less doling out taxpayer money to lots of causes, including sending it to their rich constituent land developer cronies on the Coasts.
Yes I did: I said I wasn't a policy maker or appropriator.
Personal opinions are not important. You need to start ignoring the right wing rhetoric and pay attention to what the right wing policy makers and appropriators are actually doing.
What a weasel. Later.
I can’t believe the amount of outrageous lies these demons get away with.
“Maybe you should study up”
“I did. I had 31 hours of college chemistry and a career in industrial chemicals, working for the emitters. “
You obviously missed geology.
I only had 8 hours of geology
Ben Ficklin, check your Freepmail. I owe you an apology.
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