cleaning up

``When I interviewed FEMA Director Mike Brown on Countdown last night, I took him into the future and asked him if, when New Orleans was “reopened,” he would look back at the greatest step in that process, the decontamination of the water now drowning the city. He agreed completely. It’s not just water — it’s water with decomposing people and animals in it. And it’s water full of chemicals and solvents and battery acid and anything else dangerous in a city. And it’s water destroying homes and foundations and roads. And it’s water ruining, of all things, the water system.

And the remedy might even be worse than the cure. Guy Gugliotta and Peter Whoriskey writes in The Washington Post this morning that scientists are afraid of what happens after they drain the floodwaters back into Lake Pontchartrain. It’s not just water any more, they say, it’s a toxic soup now being dumped into the delta surrounding the city. Getting it out of people’s houses is one thing. Getting it out of the ecosystem is — in the worst-case scenario — more expensive than the Gross National Product of this country.''

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

...more expensive than the Gross National Product of this country.

If every single American donated the fruits of all our labors for an entire year, we still wouldn't have earned enough to clean up the ecosystem of the Louisiana Mississippi River Delta.

When?! When are you people going to realize that technology will not be able to solve the problems it's creating?!

What will it take, short of exterminating us all?