"Is it the final curtain for the Fertile Crescent?" Topic
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TKindred  | 16 Oct 2015 3:25 p.m. PST |
This summer, as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned, climate modellers are warning that the current drought is likely to become permanent. The Mesopotamian cradle of civilisation seems to be returning to desert. link |
| sneakgun | 16 Oct 2015 9:24 p.m. PST |
All the ancient irrigation filled the soil with salts, if I remember correctly. |
| cwlinsj | 16 Oct 2015 11:41 p.m. PST |
That article is from 2009! I remember reading reports from 2001 stating that there was only 10% remaining of the fertile crescent… Then again, Mongols had already permanently destroyed most of the canals and irrigation of Mesopotamia in 1258. It has never recovered from back then. |
| Rrobbyrobot | 18 Oct 2015 3:53 p.m. PST |
Almost sounds like the plot to a western movie. "Folks hereabouts lived real well 'till them Turks dammed up the river…" |
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tells something about herself.
