Of course, it's the small farmer's fault.
...The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now...
All that petrochemical heavy industry has nothing to do with it.
After all, even though it just recently started to dry up, the Euphrates had 5,000 years of abuse from small farmers.
Oh, yeah, and The New York Pravda is certainly above pandering to sell its schtick:
...The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen impoverished and has depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for work...
Of course, it's the good Christian folks from a faraway land who built that heavy petrochemical industry (that isn't even mentioned in the article and has nothing, nothing to do with the encroaching desert) for the locals.
It's the good Christian folks' puppet Saddam they built it for only to take it away from him, bombing many of the locals into the sand.
It's the good Christian folks who have currently withdrawn to bases that hold the heavy petrochemical industry and who might like to see all those marshes and their pesky hard to find and kill locals dry up and blow away in the wind.
It's the good Christian folks who might take all that Revelation mythology more seriously, or at least as a good Christian motivation to keep good Christian sons and daughters fighting to hold oil for fat old men in a land far away.
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