From Best of the Web Today (6/6):
“Far from being barren wastelands, the deserts that occupy one
quarter of the earth’s land surface could be key sources of food and
power,” claims PlanetArk.com:But these vast open spaces, home to rare and useful plants and animals,
are at risk from climate change and human exploitation, the UN’s
Environment Programme said in a report published on World Environment
Day.Deserts are good! No! Deserts are bad! According to London’s Independent:
Few places on Earth are less hospitable, less suited to human life than
the Sahara desert. Yet as global warming accelerates and the prospect
of profound climate change looms large, we must face the fact that vast
areas of our planet will be rendered equally barren.The Arab News
even claims that the “vast arid lands and deserts” of Saudi Arabia are
threatened by “climate change.” And given the crazy Shariah dress code
over there, they can’t even have beach parties.
This made me
think of the News & Observer’s complaints this week about
development on the waterfront. Despite the millions of dollars the
counties and state are spending on economic development (commissions) in Eastern North Carolina, the N&O complains when development does happen.
