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Hmm... the SAFEST place to go that needs help is Biloxi. There's really nothign that can be done in Downtown New Orleans until all of the water's pumped out.

From my understanding, a storm of this scale is less then unique. there are theories about periods of calm and tulmult alternating every 30 years, and even a cylce that alternates somthing on the order of every 1,500 years. though perhapes intinsified by the effets of global warming, this is simply a manifiestation of our worlds natural order. It isnt as though the worlds wheather is on the brink of "snapping" and shreding the planet. what makes this storm so difrent is the huge influx of people to the area in the last century and the destruction of vast sections of wetlands which have in eons past served as "energy spounges" to weaken these massive storms.

Whats happening to our world? it's filling with people.

Viva la Capitalism! Consumer culture FTW! sweatdrop

I mean uncomfortable when the wheather starts changing globaly and little pieces of land start drying up and swamping over........I'm talking global warming and the hazards of air polution and not to mention the amount of garbage and waste.........now heres something that really makes me mad. It's hard to be all rainbows and sunshine when we stop to look at our future as the inhabiters of Earth.. scream I always wanted to be make a difference in the world, but when comes down to it, theres just not enough people to help out, or even have the intelligence to see the world and where it's going.

The population growth rates of most first world contries is stable. The United States, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and Japan all have a population growth rate ranging from 0.2 per cent to 1 per cent, and Thailand has a rate of 1.5 per cent. The total population of devolped countries will probably remain steady at around 1.2 billion, It's the 3rd world counrties that cant even suport thier current populations that are growing the fastest, likely to grow from 4.8 to 7.8 billion. It's cruel to say, but when things realy go to s**t there I supose they'll start dieing off wholesale and the population growth will even out.

i'll let Anup Shah from http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/Population.asp make my point for me.



"Many of us have grown up learning and being told that 6 billion is too much and this "over population" is primarily impacting the planet's ability to cope. But is that really the case? Sure, the planet is facing incredible stress. But how much of that is due to large populations, and how much is based on other factors, such as how we choose to live, how we produce, consume and waste our resources? The poor are numerous, but as we shall see, consume far less resources of the planet, for example."



It's the smaller, stable populations that are causing the most enviromental mayhem.

When i spoke about the world filling with people i was trying to communicate that Katrina wasnt the most damageing storm ever becuase it was the most powerfull, it's becuase there are more people and buildings in that area then ever before. Storms of that magnitude have occured in the past, and will occur in the future. We know this as fact. the only reason people die from them is becuase they live in thier path. I relize It's an overly simplistic view and im not trying to blame the residents. Life isnt that simple. People have deep emotional bonds to the place they live. The point im trying to make is that the destructive power of the storm is not an indication of mans influence on the atmosphereic wheather paterns of the world, but of becuase man has given the storm more things to destroy.

BTW, i found those numbers at http://www.overpopulation.org

Also, while i belive that humans are ******** with nature to much, i do not belive Katrina is a side efect of it.

NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!! I am SO SORRY! My uncle lives in Florida and who knows where he is right now. My school collected some charity money. I gave them a quarter or something. I couldn't do much but at least I donated...uhhhhh, a little? Gah...Although...Mother Nature has the right to get revenge against those who can't respect her. I respect her and it is no doubt she was doing it because she was pissed at all those people who keep cutting down her trees! I don't blame you, Mother Nature!

EDIT: Omnispork, you truly do belong in this guild. You are a true dork......

Canada is awesome. Kinda flat though. But rolling fields as far as the eye can see can be pretty scenic too. And lots of snow half the time!

Canada it is then!!