<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts hit a costly snag]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Tasermons Partner http://www.grist.org/article/a-dangerous-diversion/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:34:02 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/a-dangerous-diversion/1 Not to worry...

...we can convert New Orleans into wetlands once it's under water!

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...we can convert New Orleans into wetlands once it's under water!

]]> Comment #2 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/a-dangerous-diversion/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:23:37 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/a-dangerous-diversion/2 Worship Of The Almighty Dollar

So, shipping needless crap, consumption of which is destroying the Earth, is anywhere near as important as restoration of marshes?  Thinking like this will get us nowhere in environmental restoration.  We need to localize economies and severely downsize shipping, beginning with replacement of these ships that are so huge that they require environmentally harmful dredging every five minutes with much smaller ones.

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So, shipping needless crap, consumption of which is destroying the Earth, is anywhere near as important as restoration of marshes?  Thinking like this will get us nowhere in environmental restoration.  We need to localize economies and severely downsize shipping, beginning with replacement of these ships that are so huge that they require environmentally harmful dredging every five minutes with much smaller ones.

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