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Dave Cohen on September 19, 2005 - 6:41pm

Well, PG, some people had the foresight and people generally had the ingenuity and creativity to prevent the flooding of New Orleans. I believe this presents us with a microcosm for the larger problem Delaney dicusses. Many people, including reporters from the Times-Picayune, published warnings that came to pass.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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odograph on September 19, 2005 - 8:03pm

I think a lot of us are riding a post-Katrina depression. It is unfortunately a good parallel to peak oil (or global warming). It's a problem predicted/understood by scientists, but put off by politicians as too expensive and depressing, or worse yet used as an excuse to satisfy special interests.

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