I tend to agree with your assessment. Although this will seem harsh (and I want you to know that my wife and I have made a monetary contribution to assist the relief efforts so it's not as though I'm unfeeling) New Orleans had this disaster coming. No one can seriously imagine that a city so precariously situated would forever escape such a fate. It was precisely human activity in wrongly reforming the landscape which resulted in this subaqueous city. Now this is just an opinion, but it seems to me that the truly right thing and the only ecologically and longterm economically sustainable thing to do at this point is to destroy the levees and allow the river and its delta to be returned to their natural state. People should never be so foolish as to build homes in a river's floodplain. Tragically the levees have provided a false sense of security for decades. For people to avoid such disasters as this New Orleans episode, they're going to need to have a more realistic view of the kind of control man does NOT have over the elements.
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