Look at another area where man has routinely controlled natural disasters, a very simple one: Fires. For many years we have prevented certian areas from burning, which as actually proved very detrimental to the health of some forests and has made them very much more vunerable over the years to fire. Fire is a natural clensing of an area, when left to it's own device most fires move quickly through underbrush and act to clear out debris. When fire is prevented in certian areas this brush builds up and causes fires to burn hotter and longer which kills the trees that normally would have been spared. This is why there are "controlled burns" in a lot of areas now.
There may be a lot more wide-spread effects of such action than people now realize. I think a lot more constructive approach might be developing buildings and infrastructre that will withstand a hurricane. In the long run I think that would probably be more cost effective.
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Look at another area where man has routinely controlled natural disasters, a very simple one: Fires. For many years we have prevented certian areas from burning, which as actually proved very detrimental to the health of some forests and has made them very much more vunerable over the years to fire. Fire is a natural clensing of an area, when left to it's own device most fires move quickly through underbrush and act to clear out debris. When fire is prevented in certian areas this brush builds up and causes fires to burn hotter and longer which kills the trees that normally would have been spared. This is why there are "controlled burns" in a lot of areas now.
There may be a lot more wide-spread effects of such action than people now realize. I think a lot more constructive approach might be developing buildings and infrastructre that will withstand a hurricane. In the long run I think that would probably be more cost effective.