Bobby, you say that again.
Florida Girl is anti-intellectual, anti non-sowalian, anti-societal and most of all anti-common sense. While I am sure her father was a good and well-intentioned man, as well as, according to her, on the forefront of technology for his time, based on what FG has said, I am sure that is all true. However, if he were still around I would think such an honorable and community oriented man would still be on the forefront of science and technology today and being such would be looking to preserve and restore the wetlands of the area. That is, using our modern understanding of the environment and its complexities to work in harmony with nature to achieve our communal goals, as opposed to the century old high cost Panama Canal methodology of working against nature to make it habitable to man and bovine. Mother Nature has unlimited forces to work against us. One of the main problems with the old Panama Canal approach is that it depends heavily on the expensive construction and maintenance of ditches and the use of pesticides; something, by the way, that our ancestors did not mind paying high taxes to support. In this day, no one wants to pay for any government service, but everyone wants the benefits of any particular service that services them. Maybe that is yet another reason to employ the newer technology, lower cost and therefore lower taxes. It is a shame that gentleman?s daughter has chosen to limit her understanding of the environment to pre-1975 technology and understanding. We have learned a great deal in the past thirty years, both in the ivory castles and the sand castles.
BTW (although I am sure that 99.99% of the people reading this post realize it) neither people nor cattle are a natural wetland?s flora or fauna, therefore, if either is present then it is no longer a natural wetland and thus mosquitoes will multiply unchecked by nature. The reason for leaving natural wetlands alone is that we cannot create anything nearly as perfect as nature is capable.
