Greening the Desert

They laughed and said it couldn't be done...

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[VenusProjectFTW]

This is why I don't trust people who say that we are 'running out of food'. Ridiculous. Anyone with some curiosity and common sense can find the answers to world hunger online. Sadly, most people are lacking in those two qualities.

[Drew Dubious]

Terraforming the right way. Nice werk.

[CalumGilhooly]

Cheers.

[Rua Lupa]

Here is another alternative approach to greening arid landscapes: Search "Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change" on youtube and watch.

Its not that the sheep are grazing, it is how they are grazing. Forests and grazers can co-exist if approached in a holistic manner.

[CalumGilhooly]

I agree with you re our overactive reproductive cycle but we altered many places and turned them into deserts in the first place. North Africa was known as the bread basket of the Empire in Roman times and was fertile and green. Humans cut down all the trees and altered the climate. It's time we reversed a lot of the damage we have inflicted on the planet. In Scotland, sheep grazing prevents the regeneration of the old forests we destroyed, We are regrowing those forests now.

[Tee Kay]

I think of this as an experiment and it would be useful for reclaiming land we have lost to over farming and bad practices.

I would hate to see it as a way to convert desert to support the ever increasing population. We have deserts for a reason and to wipe out even one part of the environment to support this plague we are inflicting on the earth is just too selfish to contemplate.

It is time we took some serious steps to stop the increase in population and to start living within our means.

[VenusProjectFTW]

Well, the idea is that if you put something in quotations, that means it's borrowed speech. Hence, I don't hold the view that we are running out of food. And yes, the US does produce a surplus of (crappy) food, but that what you seem to be implying (forgive me if I'm wrong) is that they should ship it over to places where people are going hungry. Ok-ish solution for short term, terrible for the long-term.

[C12claws]

Forgive me if I'm missing the larger picture, but in the US they actually have too much food, and they pay their farmers to throw out some of what they produce. I doubt any food shortage would occur from a lack of land for that food to grow on.

[C12claws]

I think what he meant was anyone who bothered to do the some research online could find these solutions.

And can you please not refer to the place this area is in as "some poor arab country?" It's such a stereotyped and ignorant thing to say.

[C12claws]

Lol running out of food? The US government pays their farmers to BURN a lot of their crops because they produce TOO MUCH.

[victor sandy]

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