Get Gulf Coast rebuilding in the debates
January 28, 2008
Two years after Katrina and Rita, and Gulf Coast schools, hospitals, police stations, roads and flood protection still lie in ruins, keeping displaced residents from returning and communities from recovering. Will you support H.R. 4048, the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, as president to rebuild community infrastructure and create job and training opportunities for residents?
Think the presidential candidates in both parties should have to answer this question as part of the California debates coming up on January 30-31? If you do, then go here to make the Gulf Coast's fate part of the national debate. And if you want to know more about the bill, go here.
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mpb
January 28, 2008 05:06 PM
Major TV interviewers have asked presidential candidates 3,000 questions -- only six of them have been about global warming... To put that in perspective: three questions mentioned UFOs.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/28/global_warming_tv/index.html
Both our delta systems need this question to be asked. In Alaska we have some 200 cities which must be re-designed, relocated because of environmental change. Even after 10 years notice, only a handful are beginning to be planned, led by the US Army Corps (and not by the state or tribes). Every fall or spring another 50 feet+ of each community boundary moves back and everyone's feet get that much wetter vertically.
There's no substitute for community-based research, public involvement, human sciences (human ecology), but boy a lot of official leadership prefer a leap of faith.