I don't like to see good science pushed to the sidelines just because it conflicts with narrow interests pushing their self-serving agendas. Such politics as usual helped to inundate New Orleans in 2005. If science and engineering had been allowed to play their proper role in the development of policies for the wetlands and the levees, we wouldn't be in this situation today. If nothing changes in the future, one fifth of the state of Louisiana--everything south of Interstate 10, including the city of New Orleans in its entirety--will disappear beneath the waves, gone for good, and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Take Heed
I don't like to see good science pushed to the sidelines just because it conflicts with narrow interests pushing their self-serving agendas. Such politics as usual helped to inundate New Orleans in 2005. If science and engineering had been allowed to play their proper role in the development of policies for the wetlands and the levees, we wouldn't be in this situation today. If nothing changes in the future, one fifth of the state of Louisiana--everything south of Interstate 10, including the city of New Orleans in its entirety--will disappear beneath the waves, gone for good, and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
No comments:
Post a Comment