NOLA by professional photographers 003 - Sexton

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Here's the problem in a nutshell.
I'm not at all anti-industry or one of those people whining non-stop about multi-national corps, but destroying the Gulf South's windbreak for factories and petrochemical plants is the second stupidest thing we've done which ensures the demise of New Orleans as well as the rest of the swamp.

But, whatever... Apparently we can't give this any attention because ensuring gub'mint takeover of the oil industry because the sky is falling (or maybe it isn't) is more important than real issues such as the destruction of critical landmasses, thermal pollution (from paving the world) and real pollution (such as tons of phosphate and nitrogen-rich fertilizers washing into the Gulf from the Midwest, making red tides). At first it looks like the government is environmentally penny-wise and pound-foolish in focusing on CO2 waste. Except that they are not. There is an agenda for money & power and well-intended "environmentalists" eat it up & believe the hype.

To me it's like letting a tire salesman convince you that you need to buy new tires, then being smug about it, when you KNOW you have no earthly idea if your tires were bad or not. But your intentions were good and that's all that matters. Afterall, how could the added safety of new tires be bad? We just had to skip a few meals for them... And my neighbor had to get rid of his car...But the salesman has a new Escalade...
I promise you that once the government owns these petro plants, it's only going to get worse.

I just hope New Orleans and surrounding areas don't go tits-up before I do.

This picture is from one of my most treasured books, Richard Sexton's Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Lousiana's River Road (Find At Amazon)


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