Clearcut Logging and Its Discontents
March 30, 2014 by at 2:59 pm
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No argument here – I’m willing to buy that a combination of government ineptitude and private avarice can perpetrate all sorts of fuck ups on the unsuspecting private citizen.
Only, the narrator still has to make his case. For, while he shows impressive build up at 8:45 and 10:45, he never explains two things:
1. Why the oxbow flattened out by the event at 10:45 “flexes” back into the rounder shape it has in 2:45 (and 8:45).
2. And unless I missed something – which is possible – he also never shows a satellite image of the landslide itself. Why is that? Is one not available? It would have been a good “clincher” to his argument and given us the final dot in the connections.
At any rate, it is an interesting thesis and, like I said, not at all outside the pale.
Thanks for sharing – and God help those who suffered most from this unfortunate incident.
JOB
Something of interest here too to help triangulate things a bit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/egan-at-home-when-the-earth-moves.html?hpw&rref=opinion&_r=0
Teaser: “This was a completely unforeseen slide,” said John Pennington, the emergency manager of Snohomish County. “It was considered very safe.” He said this on Monday, two days after the equivalent of three million dump truck loads of wet earth heaved down on the river near the tiny town of Oso. Unforeseen — except for 60 years’ worth of warnings, most notably a report in 1999 that outlined “the potential for a large catastrophic failure” on the very hillside that just suffered a large catastrophic failure.
And of course Mama Nature has her own devious clearcutting policy waiting backstage…
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/593833-yellowstone-volcano-eruption-in-2014-some-believe-animals-are-fleeing-park-see-it-as-an-alert/
JOB