I let me subscription to Scientific American lapse, because I detected a technocratic bias, which saw the state as the solution to individuals' woes. SA saw New Orleans coming in 2001.
*update by raasafrasit*
and from the idiot sector:
"[President "Monkey-fuck" Bush] said the operation being mounted was one of the biggest in US history, and inevitably took time to get under way.
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did appreciate a serious storm but these levees got breached and as a result much of New Orleans is flooded and now we're having to deal with it and will," he said. "
Right, who could foresee that a city 15ft below sea-level, in the hurricane corridor and surrounded alternately by the Gulf, a huge lake and the notoriously flood-prone Mississiopi River would ever experinece this kind of problem?
Posted by nalgene at August 31, 2005 08:15 PMHeck, anybody could have seen that coming, mere logic rather than sophisticated modeling is all it takes to see that New Orleans was at constant and imminent risk. I'm curious to see if people are truly stupid enough rebuild the city.
Posted by: rasafrasit at September 1, 2005 02:30 PM