Moderate Mammal wrote:

Hurricane Could Leave 1 Million Homeless

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050828/..._the_big_one_1

Experts have warned about New Orleans' vulnerability for years,
chiefly because Louisiana has lost more than a million acres of
coastal wetlands in the past seven decades. The vast patchwork of
swamps and bayous south of the city serves as a buffer, partially
absorbing the surge of water that a hurricane pushes ashore.

And guess why all that wetland acreage is gone? Mindless population
growth and subsequent economic growth, that's why. The same thing that
keeps chipping away at open space, day after day, year after year. The
same thing so many fools keep touting as progress because it feeds the
pyramid scheme we call GNP growth.

Maybe the right-wing punks who think nature is expendable will think
twice after this storm. If one of these storms ever maintains its
strength into Cape Girardeau, MO, Creationist nature-hater Rush
Limbaugh might get the point.

E.A.

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