In climate-vulnerable New Orleans, residents face battle to lower carbon emissions


Darlene Jones spends most of her time holed up in the bedroom to minimize the amount of electricity she uses to cool and light her home in downtown New Orleans.
Air seeps out from the doors and windows of the 1890 one-bedroom shotgun house – and through the bashed-up floorboards and ceiling that Jones cannot afford to repair. She has wrapped foam around the leaky…
This story appeared on theguardian.com, 2023-11-21.