"Jeff McNeely, chief scientist" should be "Jeff McNeely, chief idiot."
How is it these people get these titles and jobs?
Note to Jeff: You can be pretty sure that the things we do on earth are miniscule compared to the magnificent, unstoppable, awesome power of an earthquake and ensuing tsunami. You might wish to resign your position as "chief scientist," because you are not one.
Although this man might seem somewhat opportunistic
if you cannot follow his line of thought,
I understand his main view - that the mangrove swamps
has been responsible in the past for diminishing the
effects of floods and storms. Human activities always
disturb the ecology, this time we interfered with
an ecosystem that was responsible for preserving animal
and human life along the coasts of the Indian Ocean.
Perhaps thousands of my fellow citizens indirectly fell
victims to the tourist industry building resorts on
what might very well have been old mangrove swamps,
I yet do not know for sure, but would like to know...
From a historical perspective, these tsunamis are
significant events, and do occur enough often to
have affected the ecology of the Indian Ocean area...