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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by inflatableDodo on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:51PM (#19696429)
Alternatively, it is excellent practice that we all are really going to need. Also, again, go explain that point of view to the Dutch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlan...
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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by DuskStar on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:35PM (#19696642)
The Dutch have a lot less land to retreat to than those of us in the states.
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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by Kim_Bruning on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:26AM (#19697915)
Retreat is still very expensive though. Why retreat when you can control the landscape and make it your own?

Maintaining a constant war on water is still a lot cheaper than colonizing the moon or mars; and the ROI is pretty decent.

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