Some sixty years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began the process of taming the Missouri by constructing a series of six dams. The stable flow of water allowed for the construction of the concrete and earthen levees that protect more than 10 million people who reside and work within the river's reach. It allowed millions of acres of floodplain to become useful for farming and development.
But after about thirty years of operation, as the environmentalist movement gained strength throughout the seventies and eighties.
Things turned absurd from there.
Gracia.
I've been wondering whether or not ecofascism had anything to do with the upcoming flood.
Hmmm. Who knew that the AGW folks actually created the problems they now scream about! Does any one know whether this kind of insanity also happened in Canada?
Robert:
I recommended the following piece a few months ago, when the US was considering flooding the Atchafalaya plain. It's long (27) pages, but worth the read.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/02/23/1987_02_23_039_TNY_CARDS_000347146
Sorry, hit post before I added:
Ecofascism has absolutely zero to do with the problem, as the article eloquently points out. Nature wants to take the water out of the Mississippi and into the Atchafalaya; man wants to prevent that. Guess who's going to win?
A really dedicated environmentalist would not have children and put a bullet in their own heads before they affect the planet.
Dwayne: How DARE you suggest such an evil thing! Bullets contain lead, which is toxic to the environment.
I agree. The only good ecofascist is a dead one. These people hate their own species so much that they will willingly promote and fight for causes that will disrupt the lives of or even kill other people. They don't care what the consequences are as long as mother gaia is "saved". These people are dangerous morons.
Goes nicely with the equally inane murder of CA's Central Valley.
Isn't lead one of the chemical elements found in the periodic table? Therefore, how can it be toxic to environment when it occurs naturally in it?
It seems to me that being an avowed greenie might get pretty dangerous in the next two to five years.
Lets face it, the global warming scam is and always has been about money and taxes. But deliberately flooding half the Midwest? In two countries? That's getting personal.
I foresee violence and jail time in greenie futures.
Isn't lead one of the chemical elements found in the periodic table? Therefore, how can it be toxic to environment when it occurs naturally in it?
Indeed. I remember reading about enviro-morons trying to campaign for the banning of chlorine years ago. It is also found in the periodic table.
These people are just too much. They base their causes on the findings of junk science and are surprised when they find that many of the elements they consider pollutants, like carbon dioxide, are naturally occurring. For people who consider themselves better informed and educated than us non-greentard knuckledraggers they sure are dumber than dog$hit and truly lack any sort of common sense.
@favill: The logic applies to lead that applies to oil. If it is saturating the ground near Fort MacMurray, it is natural. If you extract that oil, put it on a truck, and crash the truck and spill it 10 miles down the road, it is a toxic oil spill.
I wonder if the ecofascists who want the river returned to its "natural" state would be willing to eke out an existence in the natural state -- you know, hunting, fishing, living off fruits and berries, tomahawking raiders from competing tribes come to carry off your stores, women and children to use as slaves, starving to death -- you know, natural.
L - check out the flooding in SE Saskatchewan. I've seen comments about the upstream dam not being adequately emptied before the runoff & the rains.
Also, check out Manitoba, where the gov't is flooding the most productive farmland in the province to protect Winnipeg. Ironically, the great floodway built to protect Wpg from the Red River is dry, but the gov't figures better to flood the farms then divert the Red to the floodway to leave room in the river bed for the floodwaters from the Assiniboine.
Every time it rains, oil leeches into the ground water and into the water courses around Fort McMurray. If they were digging up something that we could not use, the Greenies would claim it was the greatest environmental clean up in human history, they would demand it was done quicker.
This is what happens when Communists run things. Look at the Caspian sea. East Germany. I'm convinced Obama is out to destroy every thing American.
Those people there don't vote right anyway.
Live camera on the river
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kxmcweathercenter
The ecofascists have slowly weaseled their way into the system everywhere and there will be a big economic price to pay. We have already seen the difficulty in building pipelines. We need federal, state and provincial politicians on both side of the border to acquire some gonads and deal with them in a manner that does not take us back to the stone age.
Have no fear...after the revolution...things will improve....
sometimes these things take a spell...
We don't make the rules...we jus' have ta play the game.....and sadly most revolutions are not velvet ones...