More Good News from Iraq
apparently not to the ‘environmentalists,’ though...
Water and new life are returning to an ancient Iraqi marsh considered by many as the cradle of Western civilization.
Saddam Hussein drained the area after the 1991 Gulf War to retaliate against the people who had lived there for thousands of years. ...For eight years, virtually all of Iraq’s earth-moving machinery was used in a massive project of dam building to drain the marsh and uproot the 500,000 people who lived there or on its edges. ...International and Iraqi experts are now restoring it.
For more than 5,000 years, the Marsh Arab culture thrived in the 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The marshes boasted hundreds of species of birds and fish, and periodic flooding created fertile farm lands.
Some scholars believe the flooded, flat plain was an important part of the development of an agriculture-based culture that helped raise civilization to new heights. The vast marsh was identified by some biblical scholars as the site of the fabled Garden of Eden.
I’m not hearing much celebratory noise from the eco-warriors… Wonder why?
They have a lot on their plates, now that anthropogenic climate change hysteria is ramping up. So we can expect some of these trivial matters slip through the cracks.
Or maybe Lefties just can’t stand another example of the linkage between Leftist governments and extreme environmental degradation.
Could be either one.
Posted by HelenW on 02/22/05 at 05:00 PM
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