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Is It Worth Trying To Save The Everglades?

Bill Webb
August 02, 2007
Congress is expected to approve a water resources bill - the first in seven years - that would authorize $2 billion in Everglades restoration projects, including the long-awaited Indian River Lagoon Plan. Negotiators reached agreement Friday on the $20 billion spending legislation. Other priorities would be restoring the Louisiana coast - thus increasing protection from hurricanes - upgrading navigation on the Mississippi River and improving flood control nationwide. Regain Everglades fervor

Considering that there's a good chance most of the Everglades will be under salt water in another hundred years or so, I'm beginning to wonder if the $2 billion might not be better spent on developing sustainable energy. This may sound odd, coming from a Florida boy, but -- there it is. It's time to be thinking about triage. Ditto the "restoration" of the Gulf Coast. What will a 2-foot rise in sea level do to all those new wetlands and other restored areas -- like NOLA?


What do you think? Is it worth trying to save the 'Glades, or should we be spending the money differently (although still on the environment)?
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Bill Webb

Old guy, Buddhist agnostic, recovering drunk, birder, writer, cat lover, husband, dad, son, brother, photographer.

Married to Michele (My-Wife-the-Shrink), father of Tanya and Deborah, grandfather of Selina, loving f-i-l of Eric. Willing servant of Mr. Filbert Frbl and Miss Ebony Ankledancer.

Former lifeguard, pilot, cop, police administrator, executive chauffeur, rehab worker and counselor. Now a supervisor for a security company, and trying to follow the Middle Path, one day at a time, with varying success.

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