"The Lasting Tragedy is Our Short Attention Span"                                                                                                                               

Questions and Answers are cited below as

"Q" and "A"

1. Q: To what am I referring?

A: The article at page 46 of the Los Angeles Business Journal, September 12, 2005:

"As horrible as the past two weeks have been, there are signs that many Americans want to move on. It happened after 9/11 and it will happen here. Maybe that will change. The administration will be pouring some really big bucks into the recovery effort - and perhaps with all that money there will be a greater recognition of why it's important to shore up the nation's infrastructure, not only in Louisiana, but in places like the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where a major earthquake could unleash massive devastation."

2. Q: What other important observations do we find in the Los Angeles Business Journal article?

"It's not just money that's required. If this calamity taught us anything, it's that the Department of Homeland Security is its own disaster - a massive conglomeration of departments and agency that clearly aren't working very well together. But how does Bush undo what he had been pushing so forcefully? and how do the pork-minded legislators finally recognize that there is more to their jobs than building bridges in their districts?"

3. Q: Should our examination take us well beyond what is covered by the Los Angeles Journal's commentary on "The Lasting Tragedy is our Short Attention Span"?

A: Yes.

4. Q: Why do I say this?

A: Because science, albeit too slowly, is making it clear that the future world we may have to deal with does not even begin at the stage on which the Los Angeles Business Journal's commentary comments.

5. Q: Why not?

A: Because underlying the whole picture which a Katrina disaster hardly begins to cover, is the fact becoming plainer every day.

6. Q: What is that?

A: That in consequence of the overuse of petro fuels and many other causes, the polar ice sheet and covering snow is melting away, and eventually there will be a similar melt in the Antarctic end of the planet.

7. Q: What is the foreseeable consequence of these facts?

A: That the polar melts and other factors will raise the level of the oceans worldwide.

8. Q: What consequence has that?

A: That much of the existing world we are planning for at New Orleans and otherwise, will be below the surface of the ocean.

9. Q: What does that mean?

A: That our best scientists should expand their planning now for the kind of world in which so much of existing structure as at Louisiana, Texas, California, etc. are planned for.

In short, an eventual much more serious tsunami than the last one that hit us and without an easily reachable place to stop the loss of habitable human territory.

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