--- In [email protected], "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The geopolitical strategy article I posted here that Judy refers to > pointed out that you can't have a port without a city. You need > the whole infrastructure of gas station attendants and car mechanics > and bakers, and bartenders, and real estate brokers, etc., etc. > > Due to its geographic location as the gateway to and from the vast > agricultural and industrial resources of the US Midwest, the prime > industry of New Orleans will always be a port (or at least until really > cheap anti-gravity drive is invented which will put ships out of > business), but you can't have a large prime industry without the > whole supporting infrstructure. Humans wouldn't live in a such a > mono-color environment.
solution: put all the homes on stilts the way I see those Vietnamese villages do it on the Discovery Channel... Or live in houseboats as I did on a TM course in Kashmir... > > > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ports yes. City, no. I also think it is nuts to have a city where San > > Francisco is and I live in the Bay Area. It should be warehouses and > > docks. That wouldn't be pretty but so aren't skyscrapers swaying in a > > 7.0 earthquake. > > > > > > authfriend wrote: > > > > >Y'all really should read the article Cliff posted > > >here a day or two ago explaining why we must have > > >a city where New Orleans is. Not rebuilding it > > >isn't an option. > > > > > >--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Because much of that land is probably owned by Republican property > > >>owners who will lose their shirts and whine like babies if they are > > >>told they can't rebuild there. > > >> > > >>shempmcgurk wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>>Why? > > >>>by Robert Anderson > > >>> > > >>> > > ><snip> > > > > > > > > >>>One tends to have a different perspective toward feelings of > > >>>compassion and guilt when the cost of building a below-sea- level > > >>>city next to a hurricane-prone ocean is coming out of the pockets > > >>>of people who have chosen to live out their lives on high ground > > >>>out of the path of an angry sea. > > >>> > > >>>So, why do it? > > >>> > > >>> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
