7/8/2023 0 Comments Eric klinenberg books![]() ![]() ![]() Blanchard became convinced that nothing-not government, not infrastructure, not the courts-was protecting him or his neighbors, that no one was fighting on their behalf.īlanchard was not alone in this view. A lawsuit brought by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority to hold oil companies responsible for the environmental damage they had caused was opposed by the governor, then dismissed by a federal court. Five years later, BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, spewing more than 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and its coastlands and decimating food populations. ![]() 1 Ten years earlier, his business was nearly ruined when Katrina, one of the most ferocious hurricanes in American history, pummeled New Orleans, killing at least 1,440 people and causing $150–$200 billion in economic damage, including nearly $1.5 billion to the local seafood industry. “I ain’t proud to be American no more,” Dean Blanchard, a shrimp distributor, told a reporter in 2015. A house damaged by Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, 2005 ![]()
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