{"id":2239,"date":"2005-09-01T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2005-09-01T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T23:06:00","slug":"everybody-loves-what-were-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/09\/01\/19\/06\/everybody-loves-what-were-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Loves What We’re Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war
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\nEvery two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised “no net loss” of wetlands, a policy launched by his father’s administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers
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\nIn response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. “There’s no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection,” said one of the report’s authors. The chairman of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as “highly questionable,” and boasted, “Everybody loves what we’re doing.” <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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