If you remove the trees, mangroves or what ever else acts as barrier to water serge…If the powers that be install large populations on wet lands…in the natural breaks that help absorb the inevitable water serge…there is going to death…this is truly the man made catastrophe—global warming or not. The population becomes flush-able, cleansable and the Burmese general has enlisted nature as his weapon and excuse. Nature as a counter-revolutionary means.

Richard Haden