Reply #1: I don't know if I agree. [View All]

[phantom power]

These storms are a result of decisions we've made about where we get our energy. Political decisions as well as economic decisions.

Our lack of preparedness for these storms is also a result of political decisions. Just one example: the thousands of National Guard troops who can't help with the recovery because they are in Iraq.

The fact that the coastline has been built up so tremendously, in an area of known vulnerability to storms and flooding, is a result of political decisions.

We need to be able to have honest, political, conversations about these problems. Otherwise, we're just going to keep making the same bad decisions over and over again.