I think the focus of the Shock Doctrine is off the mark. Most of the issues are government related not capitalism related. National Geographic did a nice report on New Orleans in the September issue. My take is that over time man can not overcome nature and that the best use of money would be to not rebuild. Those who most want to rebuild would be better off if they took a share of the rebuilding money and moved to higher ground or at least above sea level.
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IF PARIS, AS HEMINGWAY SAID, is a movable feast, then New Orleans has always been a floating one. Born amid willow and cypress swamps atop squishy delta soils, the city originally perched on the high ground formed by over-wash deposits from annual river floods. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, actually had to wait for the water to recede before he could plant the French flag in 1718. A flood destroyed the village the year after he founded it, and hurricanes wiped it off the map in 1722 and again a year later. In its 289-year history, major hurricanes or river floods have put the city under 27 times, about once every 11 years. Each time, the fractious French, Spanish, blacks, Creoles, and Cajuns raised the levees and rebuilt.
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http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...re1/index.html
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Last edited by aceventura3; 09-13-2007 at 08:26 AM..
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