Hallelujah, the Everglades are to be saved. The Biden administration is to spend vast sums on sorting out that tender and delicate environment once and for all. But don’t get too excited.

For one thing, the administration is not about to kill off the government actions that actually ruin the Everglades in the first place. One thing ruining this delicate environment is the use of the land and water to grow sugar cane. We would not do this at all were it not for government and politics. It’s vastly cheaper to grow sugar elsewhere and boat it in. Instead, we have tariffs and quotas and trade restrictions to increase the price inside America. Sometimes this means that Americans have to pay double the average world price for sugar.