Can we get to the part where we actually restore them?

Everglades Restoration: Federal report shows little progress, dire outlook

Talk and talk and more talk, and meanwhile nothing serious gets done.  Take the altered Everglades as a microcosmic example of the globe as a whole, and you can see what will happen to us if nothing serious gets done about climate change.  I.e., continuing decline.

"The fourth biennial review by the National Research Council says that while notable progress in the construction of restoration projects has been made since its last report, those initiatives still have done little to reverse generations of decline.

"Unless near-term progress is made to improve water quantity and restore water flow, ecosystem losses will continue, many of which would require decades to centuries to recover," said William Boggess, chair of the NRC committee that wrote the report and a professor at Oregon State University.   ... The plan aims to restore natural water flow, but has been stymied by years of funding shortfalls, legal challenges and political bickering. The Everglades, meantime, continues to be depleted, now occupying about half its historical size of 4 million acres. ... "We thought this problem would be fixed," said David Guest, an attorney for Earthjustice who has spent decades fighting for Everglades restoration. "In 1994, we were screaming bloody murder that it was going to take 12 years and here we are 18 years later and we're nowhere near solving the problem."

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