On this note, I'd recommend reading Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. I was particularly interested in the discourse between Andrew Humphreys and James Eads on the initial control of the river. We, for better or WORSE, chose levies.
History repeats itself.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir
"Price is what the person pays. Cost is what society pays, here, now, elsewhere and into the future." Natural Capitalism
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