Comments on: Environment Rant http://registan.net/index.php/2009/03/19/environment-rant/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Somerville http://registan.net/index.php/2009/03/19/environment-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-379815 Greg Somerville Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:41:04 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/03/19/environment-rant/#comment-379815 Hopefully not too far off topic, my reaction to your tasty rant goes to the balancing act between legitimate development and preservation. Sustainability, after all, includes providing for humans, no easy matter along the old Soviet underbelly. Consider Tajikistan, whose rather candid webpage addressing Tajik hopes for Pakistani assistance is available here: http://www.tajikembassy.pk/tajpak_relation.htm The human environment around the Pamirs is pretty grim these days, and I have to imagine that hopes for new infrastructure will outweigh concern for wildlife, long into the difficult future. Hopefully not too far off topic, my reaction to your tasty rant goes to the balancing act between legitimate development and preservation. Sustainability, after all, includes providing for humans, no easy matter along the old Soviet underbelly. Consider Tajikistan, whose rather candid webpage addressing Tajik hopes for Pakistani assistance is available here:

http://www.tajikembassy.pk/tajpak_relation.htm

The human environment around the Pamirs is pretty grim these days, and I have to imagine that hopes for new infrastructure will outweigh concern for wildlife, long into the difficult future.

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