I found the article by Michael Grunwald quite interesting. I did not really know much about the history of the everglades. I knew that it had been developed and was much larger in the past. However, i was unaware of all the political issues that surrounded the everglades. I found it quite shocking that many of the FL native birds were hunted so aggressively in order to make hats for women which were popular at the time. This was also the first I had heard of the Airport in Homestead which was a big political issue at the time. I knew that Al Gore ran against Bush and is now promoting environmental practices but I was unaware that he refused to take a stand on the airport in Homestead. I have heard in some of my engineering classes about the restoration of the everglades but I did not know that 8 billion dollars were/are being spent to restore the everglades. It just goes to show how we as humans find something that does not fit our needs so we change it just to realize we made it worse. Then we spend three to four times as much in order to fix the problem we created. This just goes to show how we can be so ignorant of the environment and take it for granted. Maybe one day humanity will learn from our past mistakes and be more mindful of the environment before we cause too much damage to the world around us.
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