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Originally Posted by Andy C
I agree with that, but what makes us now that much smarter??? They where doing the best thing for there kids and grandkids !!!
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Damn thats a tough one, you have a point there
BUT, I think the distinction is that they didn't know what they were doing would have long-term consequences like they do. They were successful in what they wanted to accomplish (no mo big floods) but the indirect consequences of their actions were not foreseen. In other words, looking back now knowing what we know now do you think we would build those levees along the MS River? People would surely have been flooded out again, but we would have a much healthier landscape. Good question
I think we are definitely smarter now than we were (maybe not in a common sense fashion
) but technologically speaking we are.
Its funny how we shoot ourselves in the foot and never learn. The farmland in floodplains are much much more fertile than other places and its from the flooding that makes the soil fertile yet we lose one crop from flooding and we want to dam the river so that we won't lose another crop
. The river was the 'fertilizer' for years, and now we dam up the river and spray fertilizer
its almost comical anyways...
but the gist is that (I think) the wiers are doing much more good than harm. There isn't ever going to be a shortage of trout in Louisiana but marshland is going away a football per hour, pretty easy call in my book