Mar. 21, 2007 - 12:00 MDT

GLOOM AND DOOM

A very small item in our The Rocky Mountain News yesterday, way back in the national section. Quoted in full here:

POLLUTION WARMING

WORLD'S MAJOR RIVERS FACE MULTIPLE THREATS

GENEVA -- "The Yangtze River gets more than half of China's industrial waste and sewage. Europe's Danube has lost most of its surrounding wetlands, and the Rio Grande has become so shallow that salt water is seeping in, bringing ocean fish that threaten fresh water species."

"Pollution , global warming and rampant development could destroy some of the world's ioconic rivers in the coming decades, wiping out thousands of fish species and causing sever water shortages, the World Wide Fund for Nature said in a report today."

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Remarkable that not mentioned were such rivers as the Mississippi and the Wilamette to mention two of them in our country here and what about the Nile in Africa ? Are they immune ? Just keep flowing along in supposed purity ?

Was the World Fund for Nature playing diplomat ?

Another page, which I can do nothing about, of GLOOM AND DOOM . . . . . . . . . .

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