I enjoyed this article. I have two issues with it, one of them minor. Journalists need to get off twitter, I refuse to open an account. The second is there is no mention of Iran and the role it...
I enjoyed this article. I have two issues with it, one of them minor. Journalists need to get off twitter, I refuse to open an account. The second is there is no mention of Iran and the role it plays in that specific region. When they placed hundreds of thousands of mines across the area between the Tigris and Euphrates (al Qurna) during the Iran - Iraq wars, and used depleted uranium weapons, they made the area impassable unless using the only small roads. Saddam Hussein drained the marshlands in order to appear as a Deity to the locals, in order to keep control of the area from insurgencies from Iran and the sectarian differences they bring to a once bountiful region. Hussein also tried to build an international airport there with a hotel, and bulldozed an area suggested to be the site of the garden of Eden. Ok, the US adventures in nation building were a disaster for Iraq, obvious to all. But there’s a lot more going on here.
The United Nations has now declared oil-rich Iraq, the land on which the Bush administration bet the future of our own country, to be the fifth most vulnerable to climate breakdown among its 193...
The United Nations has now declared oil-rich Iraq, the land on which the Bush administration bet the future of our own country, to be the fifth most vulnerable to climate breakdown among its 193 member states. Its future, the U.N. warns, will be one of “soaring temperatures, insufficient and diminishing rainfall, intensified droughts and water scarcity, frequent sand and dust storms, and flooding.” Sawa Lake, the “pearl of the south” in Muthanna governorate, has dried up, a victim of both the industrial overuse of aquifers and a climate-driven drought that has reduced precipitation by 30%.
I enjoyed this article. I have two issues with it, one of them minor. Journalists need to get off twitter, I refuse to open an account. The second is there is no mention of Iran and the role it plays in that specific region. When they placed hundreds of thousands of mines across the area between the Tigris and Euphrates (al Qurna) during the Iran - Iraq wars, and used depleted uranium weapons, they made the area impassable unless using the only small roads. Saddam Hussein drained the marshlands in order to appear as a Deity to the locals, in order to keep control of the area from insurgencies from Iran and the sectarian differences they bring to a once bountiful region. Hussein also tried to build an international airport there with a hotel, and bulldozed an area suggested to be the site of the garden of Eden. Ok, the US adventures in nation building were a disaster for Iraq, obvious to all. But there’s a lot more going on here.
The United Nations has now declared oil-rich Iraq, the land on which the Bush administration bet the future of our own country, to be the fifth most vulnerable to climate breakdown among its 193 member states. Its future, the U.N. warns, will be one of “soaring temperatures, insufficient and diminishing rainfall, intensified droughts and water scarcity, frequent sand and dust storms, and flooding.” Sawa Lake, the “pearl of the south” in Muthanna governorate, has dried up, a victim of both the industrial overuse of aquifers and a climate-driven drought that has reduced precipitation by 30%.