Wetlands destruction highly relevant to Katrina damage (was Hurricane Katrina Comments and Questions)
 

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.

http://enough_already.tripod.com/
If any other species behaved like Man we'd call it a plague.

Wetlands destruction highly relevant to Katrina damage (was Hurricane Katrina Comments and Questions)
 

Graphic Queen wrote:

On 30 Aug 2005 14:18:54 -0700, "Enough Already"
wrote:

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.

Except that he doesn't live there anymore, though many in his family
still do. I knew his father and Rush when he was a kid. I have family
living in Poplar Bluff, Kenett and many other parts of Missouri. They
will all get had by the earthquake when that fault goes.

I know it was just his boyhood home, but I can envision a future
global-warming induced superstorm remaining at category 3+ that far
inland.

My point is that Man is causing a great deal of the damage we blame on
nature. In many ways the landscape evolved to protect itself from
extremes, but in the blind race to accommodate growth, people tamper
with natural buffers and dismiss the consequences. Another example is
cutting down too many trees, which creates more mud-slides.

E.A.

http://enough_already.tripod.com/
If any other species behaved like Man we'd call it a plague.

Wetlands destruction highly relevant to Katrina damage (was Hurricane Katrina Comments and Questions)
 

And guess why all that wetland acreage is gone? Mindless population
growth and subsequent economic growth, that's why.

Population growth has slowed in this country for the past 50 years. Go
bitch about India if you want to bitch about population growth.

Economic growth is GOOD. I know you hate mankind and progress, but you
seem to have adjusted quite well with your nifty computer.