How has Katrina changed America? (a question posed by  national public radio
)
Sadly very little
In many ways  Katrina and its devastation mimics the disaster that befell
Pompeii. .
It didn't take the Army Corps of Engineers to tell the  Roman population that
Vesuvius was in danger of eruption. In fact Vesuvius   had erupted just
previously a year  or so before and Pompeii was still in process of rebuilding when
it erupted and  buried the city alive.
Man has changed very little over the centuries on where  he chooses to live
and to conduct his business.
He by his very nature is more concerned with defense  against his neighbors
than he is against protecting himself against any natural  disaster.
History proves this
Holland for example, which is much older than the united  States has been
prone to flooding since before Biblical times, It took a  disastrous flood in
1954 to address that problem with a suitable dikes and levee  systems.
Venice is just waiting Scientists are now  telling us unless something is
done very  soon it will  sink and disappear.
The list goes on ,
In the United States developers continue to build right  on the two largest
seismically active faults in the US, the San Andreas and New  Madres with
little regard to the disastrous consequences should they trigger a  large
earthquake which they say is due.
Then there is little old  New York which has  two major faults   running
cross ways through  the entire island of Manhattan (one  on  125 St and one on
Water Street;) yet there is no city  ,State or federal plan to inhibit the
construction of new  building that goes on there  .
Who is responsible for this backward thinking?  We are
Who do we blame it on after all the death and  destruction?
Pompeii had the luxury of the wrath OF THE GODS to blame  it on
We  conveniently have  George  Bush