ALSO, You are right, this is the result of a natural, cyclic event. The problem is that the yankees came and interupted the process. A natural process only works properly when it is allowed to continue. In this case there is a definite human cause. I can drive up to it and put my hands on the cause. Let me now when I can put my hands on a unambiguous, human cause of global warming.
To protect the shipping down the Mississippi you yankees came and built levees along the river. Just because the levees exist does not mean the natural sunsidence ended. As a matter of fact it accelerated. With the lack of extra sediment in the swamp and the additional salt water, growth faults have further extended the Mississippi Embayment sediment load into the Gulf of Mexico. Another problem that has increased the wetland loss was the salt water intrusion into the cypress swamps, Cypress trees provided the last line of defense ofr the city on New Orleans for centuries. Now that barrier is less than 11 miles thick. This was caused by the yankee greed for oil and gas. You dug up my people's swamp and killed the cypress trees. Historically, the biggest offender was CITGO. They dug the most pervasive canal systems. Now they have abandoned them without closing them off. >I'm pretty sure that the land-loss is a natural cycle of nature -- we really >haven't been around long enough to know if what we've done has /really/ >had any effect. > >I'm pretty sure Louisiana and parts of Florida were just gonna slough >off there anyways. There's no real point in trying to stop it. =-] > >** >"The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man" > >"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves" > > - Fred Nietzsche > >Go go Godzilla! > >On 3/6/07, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:229576 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
