Monday, April 28, 2008
If you’re looking for sympathy – part eleventy-million.
Shorter "Hunter": If those people want to stay in Kashechewan even though they know it’s going to flood, then they shouldn’t expect any help from the government when it does flood. Don’t talk to me about traditional boundaries or tribal lands — those are my tax dollars, pal.
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You have to admit that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to continue living in a flood-prone area.
I would guess a good portion of eastern Canada and southern Manitoba is in flood prone areas, based on snow melt.
Of course, we all know that the city of Vancouver is in an earthquake and tsunami zone, waiting for "the Big One", so....
You have to admit that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to continue living in a flood-prone area.
By Blogger Red Tory, at 11:19 AM
I hear this sort of talk any time someone brings up NOLA.
My response is: "Well where are we supposed to live, exactly? The west coast has wildfires, Earthquakes and tsunamis. The midwest is stricken by drought and desertification, has no job base and is subject to bible thumpers and tornadoes and now earthquakes as well. The south is subject to severe hurricanes which will only become worse as climate change progresses and some areas lack ground water, are in droughts and lack job bases. The southeast has a lot of swampland that is essential to the ecosystem but crappy to build on and suffers from the same hurricanes that the south does. The east coast has water shortages, is vulnerable to flooding, has huge tracts of polluted land, is losing it's job base to outsourcing and plant closures and is rapidly running out of usable land for people to live on let alone grow food crops on."
Every area has it's issues, from people living on terminal moraine islands to living on flood plains. This country has over 300,000,000 people now. Are we all supposed to live in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia?
E: I'm guessing you might want to rethink the example of Virginia above.
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