Climate Nihilism: The Red-State Crusade to Cancel the Future
They killed the lifeboats. Now they're daring the storm.
In late August 2025, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced the cancellation of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, a $3 billion coastal restoration project more than a decade in the making. Designed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the project was the largest climate resilience effort in U.S. history, funded not by taxpayers but by BP oil spill se…




