Mary Kelly
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Mary Kelly is the head of Environmental Defense Fund's rivers and deltas program.
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There will be flood
The Midwest will suffer if we don't change our approach to flood protection 3
Posted 1 year, 5 months agoWe've heard a lot this week about how the floods in the Midwest might be an act of humans -- or an act of City Council, as one Iowan leader put it. We can start the futile cycle of fighting Mother Nature again if we want to: spend billions of dollars on levees and flood control infrastructure, encouraging development of river floodplains and low-lying wetlands, then watch those homes and businesses be overrun by flood water.