Re: Re:Contaminated soil.......

**A*@aol.com**

Friends, 

Key to all of this will be knowing what cocktail of toxins pollutes each 
particular stretch of Katrina flooded land.  The chemical, bio-chemical work on 
identifying what will remain as the floods recede is pretty daunting. 

As with any kind of doctoring, the Hipocratic oath requires that "first, we 
do no harm."  

The mismanagement of the levees, the shameful perpetration of poverty 
throughout the South, the decades-long slovinliness of the petrochemical industry in 
an unregulated environment, and sheer disrespect for the power nature, and the 
improvidence of our governmental agencies in preparing for the strength of 
natural disasters like this hurricaine has led to much of the unnecessary human 
suffering that attended this hurricane. 

And I don't doubt for one second that fossil fuel burning on the scale that 
our civilization has done has led to climactic changes that exacerbated the 
force of this hurricaine. 

The challenges that are going to be faced in trying to clean up our stupid, 
human mistakes, in the midst of an ecological disaster like the toxic soup 
created by Katrina's flooding mixing up our poisons boggles the mind.  The idea of 
diagnosing what the "soup" has left behind will surprise even the best 
biologists and chemists. 

I do hope we can remediate this with our 'shrooms, bugs, and other forms of 
bioremediation.  God knows that burying it will be well nigh on impossible. 

Best wishes, 
Adam Honigman
Volunteer
Clinton Community Garden

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