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Article: New Orleans: whose fault?(Biodevastation)(New Orleans, Louisiana)
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- Synthesis/Regeneration
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- January 1, 2006
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The New Orleans tragedy will spark diverse opinions on why it happened and who is to blame. In truth, while the proximate causes were Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the engineered flood control systems, the ultimate causes lie both in American history and in the American dream.
Serendipitous geography created the mighty Mississippi and its tributaries, more accommodating and cheaper for international trade than the Atlantic Ocean, and facilitated the opening up of a two-way trade system that allowed American agricultural commodities to find global markets and in turn allowed foreign mineral resources in for the increased industrialization of the US ...