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Rivers have floodplains because they flood, for sure. On top of that, though, the Mississippi appears to be wanting to flow down the Atchafalaya anyway. For commerce sake, we keep the river flowing past Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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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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