Iguazu is Igua-empty
Years ago I saw a photo of the most beautiful place on earth, the Iguazu Falls. It's a series of over 270 cascading waterfalls in the Parana Plateau region that connects Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. From the moment I saw it, I wished to go there.
Well, if this article is any indication I may have missed the boat. It seems the worst drought in two decades has so depleted the river that feeds the Iguazu that only 80,000 gallons of water pass through the area instead of the 350-400,000 gallons that normally pass through.
Considering that the Northeastern region of the US has currently received historically heavy rainfalls, global warming and climate change seems more and more evident, not just as a theory for the future of our demise, but also as an issue I face in my own day to day.
A friend of mine once told me his interesting theory about global warming and earth day and our environmental issues. "Screw humans and their "efforts" to save the Earth. Humans aren't going to kill the earth but we will make it inhospitable to our species. When we are all dying from cancer, or heat, or toxins the earth will still be here. We just won't be on it."
The truth of the matter is he's right. We aren't killing the earth; we are just turning it into a slum. I hope it's not too late to fix the broken windows and replace the knocked-out street lights. I still want to see Iguazu.
Comments
I think it might be as long as 7 years since I was at Foz do Iguaçu.Unforgetable of course! I thought the little animals, on the walk-way at water's edge, were just like the raccoons in our own Ozarks e.g. except smaller. I find that other visitors have thought they were some other species of coatimundi. I haven't tried to find anything authoritative about any of them, but I don't remember the longer snouts described for the other ss. They sure are nosy little buggers though.
Posted by: Jim Plains | March 8, 2008 06:37 PM