Israel: Greening the Desert

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[VXOP]

interesting. I doubt though this is a real greening of the desert, and definitely not a "green" or sustainable one.

Brackish fossil waters stressing plants: many aspects that do not sound god to me, neither are plastic green houses-

Geoff Lawton's permaculture approach is in my opinion, the right way to go greening the desert

[amommamust]

How "green" is Palestine, by the way?

[NWOareScum]

@BezusLives - Palestinians have lost lots of their organic farms cause of the conflict there. there's even been films about it, like The Lemon Tree. i got some fair-trade organic olives from Palestine and they were the best ever.

[BezusLives]

@amommamust Palestine is also "greening". They are discovering the joys of organic farming as that is their only option as the only fertilizer available is Israel produced to be no good for bombs, turns out it is no good for fertilizing either... but organic farming is good for everyone. Hooray!

[pooinurshoe7]

@AlMayer1100 Well if it makes you feel better, Jordan and Syria also exploit the Jordan River and uses highly ineffective agricultural techniques. You must share the blame equally between the three nations, not just Israel.

[AlMayer1100]

when I see how water is sprayed into the air, I must say that those people have no clue about permaculture management. This sort of irrigation is a bloody waste of water. And the plants grown there are for sure not what would grow there naturally. Israel has exploited the jordan river (only a few percent are left for irrigation). I'm curious about how long they will keep up their highly outdated agriculture techniques.

[Rhinoch8]

Okay, well in a few 20 years you'll have over-salinizated burnt soil...

[boysselle]

what plants are they growing? Thanks

[HoboNetWeaver]

Geoff Lawton has a much better video much more deserving of the title "greening the desert." In that... he actually greens a desert in that video, and shows you how he did it.

[33noa33]

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Use mighty power of nature

In the northwestern Australia, we have huge tides,

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desalinate the country and change deserts to rain forests to provide more rain across Australia

World population is growing rapidly and we need more energy, food, land and water.

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[SustainableHomestead]

I don't like how he starts off with propaganda.

And why is there a gap? Seems to me it's Jews who don't like Christians.

[EdM021]

Definitely, Israel needs to put an end to the desert lest the desert put an end to the state. But using very salty aquifer water eventually will create a foul desert that will require a thousand years to recover! Unless, of course, they adopt Permaculture which is a method of horticulture that mixes different species including nitrogen-fixiers and relies on harvesting rainwater. This is being done in Jordan click on Greening the Desert with Geoff Lawton in the sidebar and go on from there.