Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Iraq is dying (and that is a global problem)" video.

Its odd to me how people describe flooding the world over as a "problem". Its a natural event, and it benefits mankind greatly by fertilizing the land around the river. This was true of Iraq, the Nile delta, and many other places. And in Iraq and many other places, damming the river and stopping the floods had a price of making the land less suitable for agriculture, which had to be made up for by irrigation. There is a price to messing with the natural order of things. I'm fine with that. But describing seasonal flooding as a "disaster" is just blind to the benefits of natural processes, the same ones that made the land attractive in the first place, and made civilization bloom there.
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