September 12, 2005
a war on nature
The Republican noise machine is still spinning furiously around the lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in New Orleans. FEMA's budget has been cut and inept political hacks have been put in key positions.
This insight discloses the way the federal bureaucracy is in a sorry state because the current Republican administration doesn't treat governing seriously.
Some satire on the war on nature can be found over at Billmon
New Orleans was built onkeeping the water out.The city has long been crouched behind poorly maintained levees in a river delta. Louisiana has been loosing its fragile coastal landscape as it has not been maintaining the dunes and mud flats or protecting salt marshes and barrier islands.
Maybe they need to learn to live with the water in a more ecological way, if we are to live with global warming and rising sea levels?