Der Sumpf muß gehen!
Jan. 20th, 2021 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lantairvleaI had a thought strike me the other day.
Trump had shouted that he would drain the swamp. Drain the swamp! Like any land-grabbing realtor the thought of making something "useful" and marketable and saleable to the masses was at the foreftont.
But what happens when you drain a swamp? You build houses on it. You make your buck and leave.
Sure they may be nice houses and visually pleasing, but then you have hurricane season. Everything floods and you have destruction.
What was that swamp doing?
It may have appeared like a useless stinky piece of land, but it was a wind break, held sediment, prevented storm surge from contaminating freshwater, and providing habitat for wildlife as well.
The idea of draining a swamp sounds grand, but perhaps it was protecting us from something worse?
Trump had shouted that he would drain the swamp. Drain the swamp! Like any land-grabbing realtor the thought of making something "useful" and marketable and saleable to the masses was at the foreftont.
But what happens when you drain a swamp? You build houses on it. You make your buck and leave.
Sure they may be nice houses and visually pleasing, but then you have hurricane season. Everything floods and you have destruction.
What was that swamp doing?
It may have appeared like a useless stinky piece of land, but it was a wind break, held sediment, prevented storm surge from contaminating freshwater, and providing habitat for wildlife as well.
The idea of draining a swamp sounds grand, but perhaps it was protecting us from something worse?
