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Giant underground lake might help solve darfur coflict

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by burritos, Jul 18, 2007.

  1. burritos

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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6904318.stm

    "The team used radar data to find the ancient lake, which was 30,750 km2 - the size of Lake Erie in North America - the 10th largest lake in the world."

    That's a big nice person lake. Let's hope the geologists' findings leads to the end of this holocaust.
     
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    Or, it may create a greater conflict if management of this resource is corrupted.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SSimon @ Jul 18 2007, 03:08 PM) [snapback]481092[/snapback]</div>

    Are you always pessimistic?
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SSimon @ Jul 18 2007, 02:08 PM) [snapback]481092[/snapback]</div>
    Maybe if it were oil...
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(etyler88 @ Jul 18 2007, 02:11 PM) [snapback]481097[/snapback]</div>
    I know, I thought that when posting such a comment. It's just that I can definitely see problems occur in such a resource deprived area.
     
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    Every society has its different factions fighting over resources (Including the US). Well development will prevent starvation/dehydration which is good, but it is dubious that it will resolve the cultural differences fueling the war. I doubt will it escalate problems though.

    Accusations of oil politics already abound regarding all of African resources.
    http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darwood @ Jul 18 2007, 02:25 PM) [snapback]481115[/snapback]</div>
    Exactly what I was getting ready to post. I don't see the water as a negative, by any means, but it can't erase the deaths, mistrust, anger and other damage already done. But it's a start.
     
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    It's also a finite resource; when demand exceeds supply, the anger from what's already transpired will quickly return to the fore.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(etyler88 @ Jul 18 2007, 02:11 PM) [snapback]481097[/snapback]</div>
    I consider it more Realistic. It's not the supply that's the problem - Africa DOES have enough food and water for its people right now; it's the distribution. Unless there's a Magic Fairy who can wave her magic wand and make all the warlords disappear, this is going to change little, if anything.

    Remember Live Aid in the 80s? The thing that was responsible for more grain rotting in ships than anything else? This is basically the same song, different verse.
     
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    Despite what Ban-Ki Moon thinks, lack of water is NOT the cause of the genocide being commited in Darfur.
    It's just one group to wipe out another.
    THey are not posing a threat to the U.S. so we should stay out of the area since it is in civil wart and just let them keep killing each other.
     
    #10 Devil's Advocate, Jul 18, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Devil's Advocate @ Jul 18 2007, 04:46 PM) [snapback]481295[/snapback]</div>
    I believe the phrase he used was "the Darfur conflict began as an ecologic crisis". In a similar way, WWI began when the Arch Duke Ferdinand was shot. At no time in his editorial did Secretary General Moon say that solving the drought would solve the conflict, though he did say that economic development would be part of any real solution.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Jul 18 2007, 10:27 PM) [snapback]481430[/snapback]</div>
    That may be the case, but that is not how the stroy was reported in So Cal. The spin here was that the US (as the third place CO2 and overall GHG producer was responsibel for the genocide!)
     
    #12 Devil's Advocate, Jul 19, 2007
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    I find it interestingly left-wing to refer to the lake as "ancient."
    Every conservative Christian could easily explain that the lake was not recently found. Rather, the lake was recently placed there by God to bring peace to the region.
    Come on, people. It's been long-since established that God placed all the fossils in the ground to question the faith of scientists. How hard would it be to bury a lake?


    (yes, sarcasm)
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Jul 19 2007, 01:01 PM) [snapback]481648[/snapback]</div>
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Jul 19 2007, 12:01 PM) [snapback]481648[/snapback]</div>
    That's funny.

    In Africa, I'll bet there are a ton of dry old river beds where rivers may have once run through. If there were fish bones in these historically dry river beds, would it be safe to say that rivers were once there or could you only call that assertion a theory?
     
    #15 burritos, Jul 19, 2007
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