ext_174476 ([identity profile] bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bex77 2010-04-05 08:56 pm (UTC)

He called it "one of the planet’s most shocking environmental disasters."

The thing is, though, that this isn't news. It has been an ecological disaster for years. A "once thriving seaside village" does not become a struggling village 60 miles from the shore over night (quoting a story I heard about the subject over the weekend).

I wonder what has happened that has made this news all of a sudden, now that it is probably too late to act.

(Yes, I know. Soviet Union. Closed borders, blah, blah, blah. The border's been "open" for years....)

And it is strange how things seem to cluster together like that.

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