BBCNEWS Witness History November 19, 2021 02:43:00
But the engineer in me — i repeat, the engineer in me — is in awe of the idea that you can drain an area as large as these marshes. it's impossible. yet the iraq engineers did it. in a period of three years, the marshes that used to live for 50,000 years were no longer. and the marsh arabs that lived out off the marshes lost their way of life. i have learned one thing from nature is that all we need to do is get out...let the water flow and get out of the way, and she will recover effectively very much. she doesn't need us, she's seen this before and she will be here after we're gone too.
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