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What tools Posted by wizeGurl on 2006-11-19 22:02:08 | This kind of thinking is just like Hurricane Katrina. Restore Louisiana's coastline (which would almost certainly have diminished the effects of any hurricane hitting Louisiana, including Rita) at a cost of $14 billion? Too expensive. Improve the levee system in the New Orleans area to deal with category 4 and 5 hurricanes (remember, Katrina was a 3 by the time it made landfall) at a cost of $1-5 billion? Too expensive. And now, the very same government will have to pick up the tab of fixing the area, to the tune of $200 billion, without a large chunk of the tax revenue lost due to the destruction. If these guys think that a 1-3 foot rise in sea level (most conservative estimate), stronger hurricanes, more droughts, floods, tornados, changing weather patterns and crop suitability, not to mention the flood of refugees from countries with less resources to fall back on when disaster strikes, won't hurt the economy, they're even bigger idiots than I thought. |
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