You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Blue No More Part 2: The Aral Sea and The Aralkum Desert
Even if I schemed day and night for a century to create exponential misery for humanity through intentional ecologic pollution and destruction, I would not be able to accomplish a fraction of what these "reformers" accomplished with their hobby-level commitment. Well-meaning idiots are far worse than the worst tyrant. The evils residing within reformers will even make psychopaths shudder with fear.
Well, there is the High Aswan Dam in Egypt, which though nominally altruistic, was fairly publicly merely a vanity project, and it's another contender for worst environmental disaster- but it might be one of the exceptions that prove the rule here.
Had that fool Nasser intentionally burnt down half of Cairo and constructed his version of domus aurea, he would have done more for the welfare of the Egyptian people than all his so-called modernizing projects. What sheer hubris to imagine he, Nasser, can bend the Nile to his will and "improve" the annual Nile floods. There is a special place in hell for megalomaniac reformers like Nasser.
One of my ideas for a comic literally starts with one of the returned Egyptian gods kicking down the Aswan High Dam.
Great post as always!
Sounds like an awesome comic too. This is what I imagine it would look like with the Gods coming in (led by Osiris) to take out the Aswan Dam:
New meme inspired by this post by @mountainwashere
Once your comic gets to the big screen, would be awesome to have this playing in the background whilst Osiris kicks down the Aswan dam. Not to take away from any of the merits of the comic (which I am sure will be awesome based on your current and former posts).
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
I think you'll find reformers is often just a label for developers and agriculture business looking to line their pockets. This is why more sane areas of the world try to inhibit their ability to fuck everything up even unintentionally with environmental impact reports. Unfortunately in my experience their is often a lot of inadequate science and opinion in them plus unskilled government bodies who get to say "Yes" regardless. EIRs can and do get challenged by citizens as wrong or inadequate but those kinds of actions are expensive, lengthy which puts up a huge hurdle against them.
In other places without them you're just destined to take whatever the bozos in control push through. But hey, at least the cause here is well known and it isn't global warming. Just local greed and ineptitude.