re: South Mississippi groups sound alarm on potential Bonnet Carre Spillway opening

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I wonder what happened to the bottle nosed dolphins and the oyster beds before humans ever built flood control structures and the river flooded its natural banks into the saltwater estuaries semi-regularly?

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Wut?

You do get that they are arguing AGAINST using the structure right? That they want the river to stay on its natural ish path?

It gets spread out and diluted across a delta. Not directly dumped into a lake adjacent to the Gulf shore.

Your line only makes sense if someone was saying hysterically we need to open the spillway to save the dolphins.

(And for the record, I don’t think there is a concern. But a rebuttal of this form just doesn’t make sense.)

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153 bottlenose dolphin deaths

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If we can save just 1 dolphin. Just one. Allowing Baton Rouge and NoLa to flood would be justified.




...an I doing this right?

I’d be willing to sacrifice 153 dolphins just to save my own house from flooding. So I really don’t see a problem with saving tens of thousands from flooding.

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“When they start dying, we know the ecosystem that supported them is gone,” Solangi explained. “And once they are gone, guess who is next? You and me.”

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That's the most alarmist statement I've read today.

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Alliteration almost always annoys.

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Apparently almost always appropriate, appreciated, and, applicable anytime anyway.