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Alfredo Quarto of the Mangrove Action Project sent me his excellent paper on mangroves as well as a scientific study by Japanese and Vietnamese scientists detailing exactly how mangroves dissipate tidal swells and tsunamis (check out the graphics). He says he's doing a dozen radio interviews today, which means this is one post-tsunami environmental argument that isn't being treated as a crackpot theory.

My article goes up on the Web today.

I'll be following up in the future on both the issues of mangrove deforestation and shrimp farming. I'm interviewing Jared Diamond tomorrow about his new book, Collapse, much of which is about how squandering natural resources helps sets societies up to fail (although, as he makes clear, there are many other factors at work). I'm curious whether he'll have anything to say on this issue.

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