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These barrier islands and wetlands are our first line of defense from hurricanes. This needs to be treated as an emergency. We need everyone to recognize that restoration efforts must begin immediately.
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This is a comprehensive plan to accomplish both crucial goals simultaneously: protect New Orleans from future flooding, and reconstruct the coast to help in that job. They go hand-in-hand. You can't do one and not the other. Just as importantly, we have to start now. We're not saying we can get all this done tomorrow, but we are saying we have to start tomorrow. We can't wait the five years it can take for the Corps (of Engineers) to do a cost-benefit analysis. We told them for years what a bargain this would be. Now I think they can see our plans were pretty darn cost-effective compared to what the costs are now.