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
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jokes_on_you t1_j12fzl2 wrote
To clarify, this was not due to supersonic flight but because of all the required construction