Posted on July 14, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Diverted any rivers lately? Me neither. The average person rarely has the opportunity. But dictators like, say, Saddam Hussein, do, and darned if they don’t take advantage. After the Gulf War, Hussein—no doubt rubbing his hands together and laughing maniacally—demanded that the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers be diverted from the Iraq marshlands, [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2007 by Jared Simpson
There’s been some fuss made lately about last-ditch attempts to save the Aral. This finely wrought movie posted by the Australian film-making company, Journeyman Productions, does a great job of documenting both the devastation wrought by the Aral’s demise and the recent measures taken to replenish it. The filmmakers draw overly optimistic conclusions [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2007 by Jared Simpson
“We cannot expect charity from nature. We must tear it from her.”—A Soviet slogan.
Here is one result of those rousing words being put into action: The liberation of the Aral Sea from uncharitable nature by heroic Soviet engineers. Please buy and read When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce to learn how this [...]
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