Climate scientists have predicted that our oceans will rise because of Global Warming. Many people living near sea level will have to re- locate, some day, onto higher land. Already the Pacific island of Tuvula is being evacuated because of the sea level rise. About 11,000 people live on this island. Terry Dyck
>From: TarynToo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: [Biofuel] Katrina slams New Orleans. Is There Blame? >Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:20:11 -0400 > >I live in South Florida, on high(ish) ground. Katrina came past and >gave my neighborhood a teeny slap, on her way out to the gulf. Now 1.5 >million people are homeless, jobless, and in shock, just from New >Orleans alone. > >Entrepreneurs and businesses have always gone where the resources are. >Regular folks follow behind because that's where the jobs are. >Government comes along and surrounds a swamp with levees, and calls it >a city. <http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/ceonline03/0603feat.html> >And of course the Army Corps of Engineers comes along and turns 1200 >miles of winding bottomland river into an 800 mile ditch, contained >(theoretically) by 7 meter levees. Homes, factories, and farms fill >the bottomland right up to the levies. > >In a free society, you can't prevent people from trying to turn a swamp >into a suburb, unless you buy the land and turn it into park or >wetlands. Ever since agriculture started on the Nile, we've known that >flood plains are great places to grow crops, so you don't really want >to take them out of production. There are lots of places in this >country where the ONLY justification for building homes is gorgeous >location, like Miami Beach and all the other sandbars on our Atlantic >coast, or the muddy, fire prone hills above Los Angeles. > >But you can't expect to live on a flood plain, or a sand bar, or a >muddy hillside, or a dry pine forest, and be safe. Should governments >issue building permits in swamps? Should insurance companies write fire >policies on wooden houses in pine forests? Flood policies on swamps and >flood plains? Should governments try to control mighty rivers from >headwaters to delta, destroying wetlands and buffering swamp? Should >governments dredge millions of tons of sand back onto the beaches of >Miami every time a hurricane scours them out? > >People have to find work, they have to live where they work, what can >you do? > >Taryn >ornae.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
