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XanaDUer2

(10,327 posts)
Sat Mar 27, 2021, 08:52 PM Mar 2021

Biden's chance to save the Everglades

Biden's Chance to Save the Everglades
With passage of the Covid-19 relief bill behind it, the Biden administration will soon offer its encore, one or more big proposals reflecting President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better, which will enlarge government’s role in the American economy. Together, these budget requests will be bigger in dollar terms than the relief bill, will address daunting problems like infrastructure and climate change — and, inevitably, will revive the partisan divide that plagues Washington.

There is, however, one environmentally important project that boasts remarkable bipartisan agreement and has important climate implications. It may be the most ambitious ecosystem recovery project ever, not just in the United States but anywhere, and it has the added virtue of being an act of atonement for past government failures.

scheme aimed at replicating as nearly as possible the historical flows of fresh water from Lake Okeechobee — flows that a pioneer advocate named Marjory Stoneman Douglas called the River of Grass — that once made South Florida a biological wonderland. These flows slowed to trickle starting in the late 1940s when Congress ordered up a massive flood control project to protect Florida’s booming cities, which looked like a smart idea at the time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/opinion/biden-environment-everglades-florida.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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Biden's chance to save the Everglades (Original Post) XanaDUer2 Mar 2021 OP
IF something isn't done quickly and dramatically, the Everglades and everything in it will die. Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #1
Did you see what happened when that ship stopped too fast? Easy on the helm. taxi Mar 2021 #2

Ferrets are Cool

(21,059 posts)
1. IF something isn't done quickly and dramatically, the Everglades and everything in it will die.
Sat Mar 27, 2021, 11:10 PM
Mar 2021

I just hope it is not beyond saving.

taxi

(1,895 posts)
2. Did you see what happened when that ship stopped too fast? Easy on the helm.
Sat Mar 27, 2021, 11:54 PM
Mar 2021

A whole range of agencies know what's going on. That's what they do. Many organizations and groups with varying interests are experts in their fields as well. Because of all their work it is possible to save the everglades. just my 2 cents

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So now that we hear the good news, we need to thanks those who have been ready.

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