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Nihil

(13,508 posts)
6. Looks like another major fail from the toolmonkeys ...
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:47 AM
Apr 2013

> Fresh water that now tumbles down the eastern flank of the Andes
> mountains to the Amazon basin and eventually the Atlantic Ocean
> will instead move west through the mountains to irrigate this
> patch of desert on Peru's coast.

Not satisfied with the usual foul-ups from diverting water around the same
approximate watershed areas, some genius now decides to blatantly steal
fresh water from an ecologically critical environment for the sole purpose
of irrigating a desert for profit.


> "All of this will be green,"

Unfortunately, it's supposed to be fucking *brown* and has had 20 million years
of evolutionary experience with this stable state of *desert*.


The sooner a major pandemic wipes out humanity the better.

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