TED STEINBERG writes: >both disasters demonstrated the tragic consequences of reckless coastal development. In Asia, industrial fish farms, tourist resorts, and refineries combined over the last generation to destroy huge stretches of coastal mangrove forest. The forest helps stabilize the land, and offers a form of natural protection that can soften the blow of a tsunami. Bangladesh experienced many fewer deaths in the disaster because of the conservation of the coastal mangroves than did Indonesia, where two-thirds of the forest has been destroyed.<
my friend from Bangladesh said that B didn't suffer much from the tsunami because the waves missed it. There were peninsulas and the like in the way. -- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
