Although we have great empathy for people who are suffering under nature's wrath (as some are now), as populations grow along coast lines, more and more people fall victim to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and tsunamis. The tsunami off Indonesia and Malaysia that raced across the Bay of Bengal at 500 miles per hour to India several years ago, killed hundreds of thousands of people who chose to live along shorelines.

At what point do we say, enough is enough and start re-locating our population centers farther in land, build higher up, or find ways to break up hurricanes and Tsunamis before they reach the shore, or tornados before they touch down? Wouldn't it be cheaper to build a break water, like the Dutch have done, rather than rebuild a city every time it is wiped out by a hurricane or a flood?

Cities in general, due to concentrations of populations and the greater requirement of government services to support and maintain the people in those cities, turn out to be very dangerous places to live. In times of war they are killing fields. When Mother Nature "rains" on or "shakes" their parade, the damage and loss of life can be equally catastrophic. They literally become death traps. Approaching hurricanes require massive evacuations, disrupting lives, the economy and costs millions of dollars. Search and rescue efforts after the event costs millions more. Rebuilding of cities after the catastrophe require even billions more of taxpayer dollars.

A major earthquake can render all city services inoperable, including drinking water for water for fire fighting, roads for first responders to get to those in peril or injured, and even if you are alive and uninjured, escape from the cities becomes virtually impossible with fallen buildings blocking every road or thorough fare. You become stuck in a death trap, with no way out.

Throughout history, during several incidences of plague (black and otherwise), most deaths occurred in cities due to living so close together and poor sanitary conditions. Infections with no medical cure, run rampant in large populations and the poor, the young and the very old are especially hard hit.

But there is one city that has cost the American taxpayer billions upon billions of dollars to re-build every time it is slammed by a hurricane, which occurs fairly often on the Gulf Coast. That city is New Orleans. They say that if you are digging in a hole and not getting anywhere or finding anything, stop digging. But oh no, not in New Orleans. Who in their right mind would build a city below sea level? Who in their right mind would continue to build in an area that is actually sinking deeper and deeper below sea level every year? We must ask, is the cost to keep the people of New Orleans safe from hurricanes and floods, worth the price? We say an emphatic NO! The city should either be permanently evacuated and a monument to its history built upon a high mound in the middle of the city somewhere, or it should be filled to above sea level, where it can't flood any more. Or better yet (and the environmentalists will love this) let Lake Ponchartrain and the alligators have New Orleans, once and for all. It was meant to be a lake anyway.

And one other thing. In spite of the dangers of big cities, your all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise national and international environmentalists and the government that aides and abets them, have a strict policy that has been codified into law by the United States by adopting that policy without a treaty being ratified and signed by the U. S. Congress. That policy, now law, is the United Nations Agenda 21 Doctrine. (look it up) Under this doctrine, bearing names like SMART GROWTH and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, people are being driven out of the rural areas (the rural areas are strictly for wildlife and eco-systems) and are crowded into large, very dangerous cities, where they can be more easily controlled by government. This done by force of law through planning.

[NOTE: Nicolea Ceausescu, a previous 20th Century dictator of Romania, actually did this same vile act when he took power. He drove everyone off of their farms into big cities, nationalized the farms and then forced the previous owners into slave labor to operate the farms. The people were helpless in the big cities under his rule. He was later tried and executed by firing squad by his own people in a violent revolution, while he was attempting to escape. For each bullet that entered Nicolea's body, ten more entered his wife's for her role in the domination of the Romanian people.]

The unfortunate reality of living in a city, is that a person or a family has much difficulty growing or raising their own food. They are almost wholly dependent on the grocery store. They are dependent on the city (government) for their life-giving water. They are dependent on the roads, bridges and transportation corridors, maintained by the city, that allows the grocery store to always be filled with food. In some cases the city folk are even dependent on the electricity that powers their homes.

They are dependent upon the city for a host of other things that they can only buy from business or the government. If a natural or man-made disaster comes along, (you know, like war) the city folk are totally at the mercy of the elements. The folks living in the rural areas however, have a much greater chance of survival and have the land, (which the environmentalists and the government want to steal from them) to grow their food, provide their water and wood to keep them warm. If an outbreak of a contagious disease occurs in the big city, in most cases the rural folk will be far enough away to escape the disease.

But getting back to the thrust of this article, "For God's sake, please bury New Orleans once and for all and relieve the American taxpayer from funding this trillion dollar sink hole."

Hopefully, one day, we will learn that we have to adapt to changing weather and environmental conditions, like all species who wish to survive. But whatever we do will have little impact on this giant Earth that has a mind of its own, over which we have no control. The Earth will be here long after we are gone and it was here billions of years before "man" ever started walking on two legs, some 3 million years ago. Our survival is the one in question if we don't adapt, not the Earth's. We are arrogant as a species to think otherwise. Should we not adapt, as the World's population continues to grow, the loss of life and damage to property from natural and man-made events will increase to the point that most economies will just simply fail. When that happens, anarchy will reign.

Man's power is puny in comparison to what the Earth can inflict upon us at its own whim and in its own time. When Mother Nature "sings", it is best for man to dance to its tune and get out of the way.

WE'RE REALLY COUNTING ON YOU TO HELP US CONTINUE THIS FIGHT.
 
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