LJ Idol - Topic 4 - 28 Years Later

[emo_snal]

   The Colorado River had been a ghost of its former self. For generations during the height of human civilization just five percent of the water that once flowed through the Colorado Delta actually made it to the sea. Even this water was almost entirely agricultural waste. The delta itself, once a lush green marshland of extreme ecological

Comments

[emo_snal]

yeah I believe there's a book by that name out there by some professor, I really want to read it. One of these days..

[faerie_spark]

very well written.

I don't like to imagine the extinction of humans, but I agree that such extinction would not necessarily warrant environmental decay. After all, it is our overpopulation and industrialization of the world that has caused so much damage.

I like your perspective and you have a terrific way with words.

[emo_snal]

Thanks! (:

[pavel_lishin]

Every time Chernobyl is mentioned, I have to point people to this great illustration: http://keiththompsonart.com/pages/pripyatbeast.html

The guy is a great artist. Check out his other stuff, too.

[emo_snal]

Such sauce!

[shadowwolf13]

This is a really interesting look at nature and how things are. Thank you!

[emo_snal]

No problem, thanks for reading and commenting. I think it's really interesting to consider that "modern society" as we know it really has only existed for a tiny moment in time compared to the other 200,000 years we were essentially in equilibrium with the environment and didn't rock the boat

[furzicle]

Interesting that we both chose to write about the devastating aspect of devastating beauty.