Save the economy; treat it like a polluted swamp.

Hell, yeah.

But wait, what does that mean?

Drain it? Kill the evil things which live there? Buy it, pour concrete into it, claim it was a nature reserve and sell the resulting land for condos, thus creating a vast problem of erosion and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic environmental change?

I have no idea. I haven’t read the article yet.

In other news: Sarah Palin’s attempt to keep beluga whales off the endangered list has failed. For the moment.