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Originally posted by Rudey
It's true but it's how you look at it. If Barbra Bush says it, certain people freak out. This guy wants the city to just not be rebuilt. David Brooks of the NYTimes said the exact same problems exist but that the government should use this as a chance to rebuild something better (better homes, better schools, better lives).
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I agree. I didn't find Shafer's article very pursuasive at all.
But, I did love this quote:
"New Orleans naturally wants to be a lake," St. Louis University professor of earth and atmospheric sciences Timothy Kusky told Time this week. "A city should never have been built there in the first place," he said to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
I'm holding my breath for him to say that Amsterdam should never have been built either, or a good portion of The Netherlands, for that matter. Then there's Venice.
And while we're asking the questions, why did we allow Los Angeles and San Francisco to become major urban areas? I mean, they're right there on major fault lines.
The reality is that major cities all around the world are built where they are sitting ducks for natural disaster of one kind or another. We live with it and carry on -- and we rebuild when necessary.
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