[Vision2020] Rebuilding New Orleans (was Of Deltas and CO2)

[Pat Kraut]

It is not the only port available big changes need to be made and this is a
good time to do it. There are other ways of shipping things into the
country. The port can be built farther up the river without rebuilding the
levees and allowing people to live so close to them. It is disatrous to
allow it all to happen again.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melynda Huskey" <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>
To: "Vision2020 Moscow" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Rebuilding New Orleans (was Of Deltas and CO2)


At the risk of getting into a dung-flinging match in the monkey house,
there is no question that we will rebuild New Orleans' levees.  New
Orleans is *the* major port on the Gulf.  It is essentially and
disastrously located at the mouth of the Mississippi.  Why?  Not
because its residents are stupid; New Orleans is where it is because
it's convenient for shipping.  Do you want coffee, Donovan?  Do you
want gasoline, Pat?  I'm assuming, based on your posts, that you both
eat one hell of a lot of bananas.  If you want these things, and you
want them at a price you can afford, then, like it or not, you love New
Orleans.  No, you adore it!  Laissez les bontemps rouler!

And just for the record, by God, New Orleans is a hell of lot more
"special" than Lewiston.  Sure, I'd rather go down to the Clarkston
Costco than ever pay another visit to the French Quarter, but I'm old.
I've reached the point where I'd rather spend my Saturdays buying
big-ass packs of toilet paper than drinking rum grenades on Bourbon
Street at 8 o'clock in the morning.  But that's as may be.  What's at
stake here is not *if* we rebuild but *how* we rebuild.  How do we
recreate Louisiana's lost wetlands?  How do we stop developers from
building millionaire McMansions on fragile beach fronts?  Will George
W. Bush order the Army Corps of Engineers to restore the marshes?  Will
he put some serious money into FEMA?  Will he fire that pea-brained
political hack he appointed as FEMA's director?  And, if he fires him,
will he replace him with a competent professional or with yet another
Pioneer Club Brown Nose?

(For more on the less-than-stellar resume of FEMA's director, check out
the Boulder, Colorado page of New West, www.newwest.net.  It makes for
a mind-boggling read.)

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com

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