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September 10, 2005

Next on Mother Nature's Hit List?

From Tech Central Station, on a tip from V the K:

Quick, name an American city of 450,000 where the majority of the population is non-white, where a quarter of the population lives in poverty, and where some of the city streets are, even on a dry day, below sea level.

New Orleans is correct. But so is Long Beach, California. Parts of this city in southern Los Angeles County stand an average of 3 feet below sea level. But the same political Left that has been trying to pin the blame for Katrina damage onto Bush has worked to prevent prevention when it comes to the same sort of damage in California, because California's liberal elitists like beaches better than sea walls.

The preferred moonbat solution to nature's encroachment on the coastline is "managed retreat" — that is, the government kicks you off your land so the sea can have it. This makes sense to some on the grounds that "seawalls are ugly." Some of the things Katrina left in its wake were ugly too, but Senators Boxer and Feinstein — who count pro-beach, anti–sea-wall environmentalists as their allies — don't seem to have given this a lot of thought where their own state is concerned.

Beaches are nice, but 80% of California's population lives within 30 miles of a coast that is systematically eroding. The Dutch have proven that it is possible to hold the sea back. The question is, can California hold its own moonbats back long enough to address the problem before another American city ends up submerged?

Posted by Van Helsing at September 10, 2005 12:14 PM