Crime against humanity
The party in power was planning to build an international airport on an area comprising wetlands. As a layman I wonder how the experts failed to evaluate the importance of wetlands in maintaining the biodiversity of the country. These wetlands work as water reservoir or retention bodies during monsoon. The country has already lost a great chunk of it to the greed of the people. If this process of destroying the water bodies continues unabated, sooner or later the country would turn into a desert. Instead of standing against it, the government appears to participate in the process of desertification.
Readers must be aware about the existence of Florida everglades consisting of millions of acres of swamps and marsh lands. No one would dare to build or construct anything there as it would constitute a crime against humanity.
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