New Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’ ^48.3%

The Guardian - By Oliver Milman - 7/1/2026, 12:00 PM

Negativity Bias 26.1% - Appeal to Emotion 17.2% - Hasty Generalization 16.4%

When a study in May concluded that New Orleans had hit a “point of no return” due to the climate crisis that would require people to eventually retreat from their storied yet ultimately doomed city, the local reaction was swift and fiery. The onward march of rising seas around a sinking city was unsettling, but the study was “more... more