Winds has written about the Marsh Arabs of Iraq before, the victims of Saddam's ecocide and the world's silence as an area the size of the Everglades was deliberately turned from wetlands into desert after the 1991 uprising.
The good folks at Oxblog point to a recent NY Times update. The marshes are beginning to return to a semblance of what they once were, but much of it may never be restored - and despite efforts like Eden Again, even the restored areas are unlikely to return to their previous state any time soon. This excerpt from Kevin Kelly's book helps to explain why. Alternately hopeful and disturbing, the Times article raises questions about the costs of war - and equally, about the costs of "peace."
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