Thanks to Barbara Seeley

For sending us an excellent article on RI (but it could be any state) standing in the way of destructive, devastating weather as the environment changes around us.  This from the Warwick Beacon:

Environmentalist warns RI 'in path of storm'

By Kim Kalunian

The sun has been shining and the birds have been chirping in the unseasonably high March temperatures, but environmentalists see this season as a possible effect of global warming. Channing Jones, field associate with Environment Rhode Island Research and Policy Center, said yesterday at a press conference that pollution and emissions have a direct correlation to natural disasters, and if action isn’t taken now to reduce our collective carbon footprint, the state can look forward to many more floods, hurricanes and hefty cleanup bills.

According to Federal Emergency Management Agency data, every county in Rhode Island has experienced a weather-related federally declared disaster between 2006 and 2011. Kent County has experienced two in the last two years: the floods of 2010, and the wrath of Irene in 2011.

“The entire state of Rhode Island has seen the effects of weather-related disasters and the great threat they pose to Rhode Island’s safety and economy,” said Jones at a press conference yesterday...

The link to the balance of the story:  http://warwickonline.com/detail.html?sub_id=68967

Take a look at that last line:  "...the great threat they pose to Rhode Island’s safety and economy,"  That is the key:  our economy, across the world, depends heavily on our management of the environment and our natural resources.  We pay a huge financial price for creating waste, pollution and failing to safeguard earth's gifts.  And, that relates to everyone of us--not just businesses and governments.

Our investments in clean companies, technology and restoring ecological balance clearly, then, have a huge, and sustaining, ROI.  Make the investment.