Totally on a tangent, but you know that there was a huge slave revolt a couple of thousand years ago in the Fertile Crescent? These slaves were producing sugar cane, but first they had to hack out a couple of feet of salty soil— the result of thousands of years of cultivation and irrigation.
I'm not sure why I thought of that. Maybe it's because growing sugar isn't necessarily easy.
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Date: 2007-03-11 05:25 pm (UTC)I'm not sure why I thought of that. Maybe it's because growing sugar isn't necessarily easy.