It's a good question to what is generally a foregone conclusion: the devastated areas of the Gulf coast are all but certain to be rebuilt.
But should we?
What will amount to a several month and $30 billion cost, more or less, will do nothing to prevent it from happening again. It's not like rebuilding the World Trade Center here. You can, more or less, do things to prevent terrorism, or, at least, make it's damage potential less widespread. But hurricanes are part of nature, and hell...another storm of the same caliber as Hurricane Katrina could develop next month and slam its way into the same region. If not next month or next year, it will happen again.
And there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
We're talking areas now that need to be completely rebuilt. But should we? Should we just admit that we're powerless to stop nature here, cut our losses, and try to rebuild more inland? After all, the cities that we build today would certainly develop the same majesty 200 years from now that our existing 200 year old cities currently have, and our descendants probably won't care if we didn't build in the same spot as the old city or not.
Thoughts?
Melon
But should we?
What will amount to a several month and $30 billion cost, more or less, will do nothing to prevent it from happening again. It's not like rebuilding the World Trade Center here. You can, more or less, do things to prevent terrorism, or, at least, make it's damage potential less widespread. But hurricanes are part of nature, and hell...another storm of the same caliber as Hurricane Katrina could develop next month and slam its way into the same region. If not next month or next year, it will happen again.
And there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
We're talking areas now that need to be completely rebuilt. But should we? Should we just admit that we're powerless to stop nature here, cut our losses, and try to rebuild more inland? After all, the cities that we build today would certainly develop the same majesty 200 years from now that our existing 200 year old cities currently have, and our descendants probably won't care if we didn't build in the same spot as the old city or not.
Thoughts?
Melon
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just kidding, deep. 
