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

[Donovan Arnold]

Joan,

You trust Bush and the government to take care of the
poor, sick, elderly, children, and disabled far more
than I do.

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting a different
result.

The Port of Louisiana is the major port, not the Port
of New Orleans. The Port of Louisiana extends almost
55 miles between Baton Rouge and New Orleans and it
should be repaired and maintained.

However, common sense and logic states it is possible
to still have a port without putting 1.3 million
people at an average of 9 feet below a sea level that
is rising every year.

It is, at least in part, all the levies protecting New
Orleans that have destroyed the wetlands around the
city by preventing the soil deposition into the
wetlands protecting it to the south. It is a catch 22.
 Prevention of soil deposits erodes the wetlands, if
you take out the levies to keep the wetlands, what
protects the city? The bigger the levy, the less the
wetlands. 

It is ethically irresponsible to put children, poor,
the elderly, sick and injured, and disabled
individuals into a position where they drown or die of
starvation waiting for help if a hurricane hits the
city. To suggest that we do it again is insane. To
suggest we can build a bigger structure to hold back
nature indefinitely is naive. 

Donovan J Arnold




--- Melynda Huskey <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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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