The point is, Oberon, that recent human influenced goegraphical changed (draining etlands, divertign rivers, removing oil and gas from the substrata) have made things worse, but people haven't used the massive wealth that has been extracted from the region to make the region safe.
And as I said elsewhere, some of the poorest people in the US live in an area with phenomenal wealth in resources.
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