the not-so-fertile crescent
This headlined the Yahoo! news page today: Drought threatens 'Garden of Eden' marshes in Iraq
Is anyone else hearing the echoes of the Old Testament here? There are way too many stories of drought and desertification as punishment (or consequence) of human wrongdoing... have we learned anything in the last two thousand years?
Is anyone else hearing the echoes of the Old Testament here? There are way too many stories of drought and desertification as punishment (or consequence) of human wrongdoing... have we learned anything in the last two thousand years?