[geeks] Mr Bill?

[Rick Hamell]

>> Unfortunately the environmental law is very cleverly written so that  
>> only the total acreage of swamp is accounted for.
>>
>> In other words, they can legally replace 1000 acres of swamp with 1000  
>> 1 acre managed wetlands which are basically just mosquito breeding  
>> grounds.
>>
>> They even count he "bowls" formed by interstate highway cloverleaf  
>> structures as wetland  acreage now.
> 
> I teach Environmnetal Science and from all I've read it appears that 99% of the time 
 > when humans "improve" on nature, they usually just f__k it up.

At least (it seems to me) we're learning and fixing the screw ups. Of 
course it's an expense lesson in both lives and money.

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