Comments on: Selling out the Everglades http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2010/03/10/selling-out-the-everglades/ where nature and culture meet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:59:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Eyes Wide Shut http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2010/03/10/selling-out-the-everglades/comment-page-1/#comment-2305 Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Eyes Wide Shut Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:38:09 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=2577#comment-2305 [...] week, a superb NYT investigation pulled the curtain back on the shady details of a bad Everglades land deal. I guess the findings were so ugly that the Times editorial board [...] [...] week, a superb NYT investigation pulled the curtain back on the shady details of a bad Everglades land deal. I guess the findings were so ugly that the Times editorial board [...]

]]> By: Keith Kloor http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2010/03/10/selling-out-the-everglades/comment-page-1/#comment-2213 Keith Kloor Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:13:10 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=2577#comment-2213 Steve, Yes, I've been aware of the Cargill machinations in the SF bay. And yes, there was a speculative real estate craze in the 1920s. Steve,

Yes, I’ve been aware of the Cargill machinations in the SF bay.

And yes, there was a speculative real estate craze in the 1920s.

]]> By: Steve Bloom http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2010/03/10/selling-out-the-everglades/comment-page-1/#comment-2211 Steve Bloom Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:23:41 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=2577#comment-2211 I'm pretty sure the swampland aphorism dates back to the first Florida land rush in the '20s. Re the Club, it wasn't that long ago that the national board suspended the elected FL chapter leadership precisely for being resistant to this sort of deal. Something similar to the Everglades fiasco is going on in SF Bay with Cargill's sale/development of its extensive salt pond holdings.  I suspect Cargill figured out that near-term sea level rise would be destroying their investment, and DiFi was only too happy to help them out.  Now there's a plan (unfunded as yet) to rebuild the levees at public expense rather than charging the rich and influential land owners who will be the beneficiaries.  Of course when the inevitable SLR destroys the existing wetlands the new levee system will constitute a permanent barrier to the upland retreat which will be the only way to save them. I’m pretty sure the swampland aphorism dates back to the first Florida land rush in the ’20s.

Re the Club, it wasn’t that long ago that the national board suspended the elected FL chapter leadership precisely for being resistant to this sort of deal.

Something similar to the Everglades fiasco is going on in SF Bay with Cargill’s sale/development of its extensive salt pond holdings.  I suspect Cargill figured out that near-term sea level rise would be destroying their investment, and DiFi was only too happy to help them out.  Now there’s a plan (unfunded as yet) to rebuild the levees at public expense rather than charging the rich and influential land owners who will be the beneficiaries.  Of course when the inevitable SLR destroys the existing wetlands the new levee system will constitute a permanent barrier to the upland retreat which will be the only way to save them.

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