— Bruce SterlingIt had been pretty damned stupid to dry up the aquifers in West Texas, but it didn’t really compare in scale with the planet’s truly monumental ecoblunders. Slowly poisoning the finest cropland in China, Egypt, and India with too much salt from irrigation, for instance. Clear-cutting the jungles in Indonesia and Brazil. The spread of the Sahara.
Replicated under Fair Use from Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling.