A ( non-ideologue-ridden) anecdote to meditate upon ...

            While living in Brazil in the 50's and 60's I learned that only poor people built their houses on flood plains - marshes. At visiting India in the late 70's and early 80's I would never forget what that well-off businessman told me ( it was the monsoon ...):

              " My family, the well-off in my country, live on the hills. We'r an ancient country where Nature isn't that kind as in North America ...Only poor people live below ..." In New Orleans poor ( mostly black) people paid the price for societal oblivion...They could not afford to leave the city. Houston is better off but ...