Endgame by Michael Grunwald

Grunwald wrote a tale about the struggles highs and lows of setting up a plan to help save and maintain the Everglades. He said, “The greatest enemy of the Everglades, the coalition’s leader declared, was further delay.” (Grunwald 79). It took a long time to come up with and lobby for a plan to be implemented in the Everglades. There were many people who wanted to Everglades to be saved and kept alive for future generations and our environments’ sake. It was time and delay that became an enemy of this idea. It took a long time and many efforts to even get the ball rolling in trying to get a plan set up for the sake of the Everglades. Then a plan emerged from many people and the environmentalists and people rooting for the Everglades decided, “Our feeling was:  This isn’t perfect, but it’s more good than bad.” (Grunwald 87). Many people had many different ideas about what needed to be done with the Everglades; once a plan was proposed about what should be done with the Everglades the people weren’t entirely satisfied or disappointed. There were many ideas and not everything could be included from everyone’s ideas, the people who wanted to save the Everglades decided that this was at least an effort to try and preserve this precious land instead of decided to develop on it. So in the end, “most green groups went along with the deal- some with trepidation, some with enthusiasm.” (Grundwald 91). I believe that this was a hard time for people of all sorts; there were people who wanted to develop, people who wanted to preserve the land, and people that wanted their specific plan to be in act. This was a time of much deliberation and hard decisions on what to do with a piece of land such as the Everglades. As we can see, the Everglades are still here today and there seem to be no plans to take it away or develop on it. Whether or not the land is as full of life as it once was it probably debatably, but there is no doubt there have been efforts to save and keep the Everglades to the wild and interesting place it has always been. In the end, “President Clinton was finally signing the Everglades bill, America’s first effort to restore Graham’s boyhood playground, to re-create the watery wonderland…” (Grunwald 99).

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