Another reason we needed (and still) need a national bipartisan commission is that had we had a timely and sound analysis we would have perhaps prevented the Deepwater Horizon event because both it and Katrina had the same rood causes. Safety was not put first and neither followed a systems approach.
These same two strategy elements were suggested by the Dutch and by the IPET's final report. Both elements have been explicitly rejected by the Corps, every level of local and state government. Before we can begin to solve the root problems we have to promote the right values (safety over growth) and a total systems view of the problem and the solution.
It's not surprising that Louisinan has no higher level program in systems engineering and that risk management, central to systems engineering and Bob Bea's recommentations, in the oil business is left to businessmen's guts and to not engineers.
This is a much knotier problem than just reforming the Corps or tightening up some flood gates. It has to reach down to include how residents decide where to live and how to build.
Posted on News comment: Wish we had a commission after Hurricane Katrina on July 13, 2010, 11:38AM
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