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MustacheEmperor OP t1_j12geto wrote

Reply to comment by jokes_on_you in TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades by MustacheEmperor

True, although worth noting that the only justification for the airport’s construction was the expected demand for supersonic intercontinental flights which looked promising at the time but never materialized. It would have been the biggest airport in the world - like six JFKs.

It’s crazy, they were going to pave the Everglades into six JFKs worth of airport!

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jokes_on_you t1_j12ii66 wrote

Would've been based as fuck. Sigh... another win for the swamp lobbyists, another loss for the American people. Most people don't even know why DC is called "the swamp."

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kthulhu666 t1_j12n0vj wrote

Cheer up mate! No land is ever truly safe from environmental desecration.

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Dawnawaken92 t1_j12jetc wrote

It was the alligator I tell you. Damn lizard people.

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gingercomiealt t1_j1rzhsp wrote

Yeah fuck our wetlands

America was meant to be a big parking lot

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