What the Dutch Can Teach Us About Weathering the Next Katrina

A 1953 storm that killed 1,835 people forced the Netherlands to change the way disaster protection is done. The same can’t be said of the U.S., where innovation has been stymied by pork-barrel politics.


http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2007/08/what-the-dutch-can-teach-us-about-weathering-hurricanes.html

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