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Originally Posted by Kevin
There's a huge difference in building a coastal city below sea level and failing to properly manage a water supply in a naturally arid area. Flooding in New Orleans again is a certainty. I don't care how many billions of dollars are spent, it'll happen again. Thousands of lives will be lost. I'd venture to say this'll happen in the next 20 years.
As for another dust bowl? Perhaps a mini dust bowl limited to parts of Colorado and Kansas when the High Plains aquifer runs dry, but about the largest town affected there will be Liberal, KS.
Heritage and history are stupid reasons to ask people to live in such a dangerous place.
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Well, logically, yeah, it is rather dumb to rebuild in a swamp and build levee systems. However, man's logic when he surveyed an undeveloped NOLA did not entail knowing things about ecology, which is considered in modernity.
Yeah, billions of dollars can be wasted, but it is not because they are "rebuilding", it is more because there is some kind of "sinkhole" that "those groups" like to funnel money into and watch is toilet bowl down...
I.e. the Dutch have a really good Scandinavian levee system that the US decided to NOT purchase because of politics...
There are combination of issues that cause the first dustbowl. We forget that large sum of animals and insects are killed allowing certain other opportunistic "hearty" animals and insects thrive. It is my understanding too that locusts thrived in the dustbowl era. There were both cotton weevils and molds on the corn where the inappropriate use of pesticides and fertilizers.
That is why you have numerous scientists making sure that fossil fuel use is not the reason why there is global warming because if it is, it explains the ecological and natural disasters we are seeing these effects globally.
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