[saganite]

In the case of the Mississippi it's not nonsense. The river has been trying to change course for decades. The natural channel for the river is the Atchafalaya river basin flowing into the Gulf at Houma (I think?). All the efforts of the last 70 or so years by the Corps of Engineers have been to prevent the river from doing that.

[MNJohnnie]

How about this. Let's just move every one and turn it into a giant national forest area. Quit building the Levees and so forth and just let nature have it way?

Man tried to direct nature and it created a mess. NOW the solution being put forward is to continue trying to direct how nature works but in a different way