TSUNAMI ECONOMICS NORTH DAKOTA STYLE

WHAT THE TSUNAMI DAMAGED COUNTRIES COULD LEARN FROM NORTH DAKOTA AS THEY BEGIN
TO DEVELOP THEIR ECONOMIES

To spur economic development, the destroyed beach communities should implement stringent controls on its prime resource, beaches, swimming, and sunning.


1. Issue Sunning and Swimming licenses, charge $100 for one weekend visits. For that you get the opportunity to sun for 12 hours total.

2. Make beach goers visit only specific beaches. Control access. Put no trespass signs on most of the beaches. Don’t over-publicize the access. You wouldn’t want too many people coming to the beach from other countries.

3. Create public sunning and swimming areas but have them only available for half the day. Citizens of the country only will have the opportunity to use the areas any time all day long during the season.

4. For swimming, issue only 30,000 swimming licenses per year. You want to keep overcrowding to a minimum.

5. Keep in mind at all times that the people that live in the area are far more important than those who come to visit. Make sure those who visit understand this. Make visitors feel like imposers. Don’t be overwhelmingly welcoming. They might come back.

6. Allow those from the big cities inland from the beaches make the beach permit rules. Don’t allow those who live on the beaches to control their own fate. After all people in the big cities know best.,


By now you must be saying, that’s the dumbest thing you ever heard. For a country to take its prime natural resource and make it inaccessible to people who might want to pay to use or participate in it makes no sense. When we look at thru the lens of these destroyed countries it’s easy to see what THEY should do.

It’s harder when it’s on our own turf. North Dakota controls hunt tourists who come to hunt in exactly this way. Does it make sense? Only you can decide.

As laws regarding hunting are made, ask the question, is this rule encouraging or discouraging hunt tourism. Every rule made that wouldn’t pass the tsunami beach common sense test should not be enacted. Those that are equally as detrimental to hunting tourists that are in effect now should be re-evaluated.

As Helen Keller, the famous deaf, dumb and blind figure from the early part of the 20th century said, “People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

Fixing broken systems means change, and all change is perceived as loss. We must learn to cope with the cacophony of shortsightedness.