There's an interesting issue here. If the imprudent Mr Piggy builds a straw house next to a place that floods, should I be taxed to build flood defences around his house?
This is a problem we're getting in the UK, where far too many housing estates are being built on flood plains. On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > The flooding of New York City was, once again, an example of known threats > not > being addressed. > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/11/defending-new-york-floods > > It would have been too expensive to do anything about the issues. (Flood > costs > currently $50B and rising as more damage found.) > > Of course, nobody could have predicted Sandy, because this was a storm > produced > by changing conditions. Brought on by global warming/climate change. Which > is > another issue that is too expensive to address ... > > (Why do I have this old oil filter ad tagline running through my head? "You > can > pay me now ... or pay me later ...") > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > Verba volant, scripta manent > Spoken words fly away, while written words stay on > victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://twitter.com/rslade > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
