Desertification - the transformation of fertile green land into a desert. Do you think we stand a chance against this? A university program that will equip you with the proper tools?
Disclosure: newfag pure blooded jew here, but please be civil gentlemen. All I want is this problem solved for Israel/Africa. less people will be eager to leave their homelands to the west.
It's already been solved. It just takes a fuck ton of work, it's not exactly difficult to figure out a root base to stabilize soil + trap moisture. You start with plants hardy plants that will grow in sandy low nutrient earth, as the root base forms move up to grasses and eventually trees. The desert will cool itself, the plants help regulate the day/night 100 degree temp swings, trapping heat in the group at night and putting moisture in the air during the day. Look into what the US did following the Dust Bowl.
Joseph Harris
What about water? Some desertified lands have the problem of water vaporing off of the ground almost as soon as they hit, causing death for the hungry plants.
Assuming you have managed to trap moisture, the next barrier is landscapes with not enough rainy days per year. Is the solution an artificial source?
Cooper Russell
just terraform the land so it has new lakes going trough the land.
You could basically rebuild the entire Australian continent if you could build rivers and lakes.
Isaac Sanchez
For a dry land it's probably the only way.
As for a land that is covered with a layer that prevents moisture from being stored, I think a more efficient solution is digging local artificial containers and placing an irrigation network.
Lincoln Cruz
I vaguely recall some dude, I think he was like a professor, was talking about turning desert land by using animals like buffalo or something like that. And independent of that I recall some other dude talking about using beavers and make them dam up small streams to make big ponds.
Nigger this is a bad meme. Nigger africa has always been shithole desert
Nicholas Foster
There was a TER talk by a South African professor about using live stock in big herds to mimic nature in order to fight desertification. Pretty good stuff.
Thomas Walker
Reminder that the south American natives caused jungle-ification by irrigating desert
Mason White
When the Yellow man finds an oasis in the desert, he maintains it. When the Black man encounters an oasis, he turns it into a desert. When a White man finds a desert, he turns it into an oasis.
Jeremiah Adams
Nope, depopulation must happen in those god-forsaken regions.
I know amazing reports of restoring deserts. Heh... Too bad.
John Scott
The reason the rivers and lakes clog up in warm zones and create deserts is because , when new water comes in , it brings salt. And once that salt piles up, it clogs the river and kills the entire eco-system.
You can see this as a planetary form of atherosclerosis
Elijah Wilson
TED*
David White
I'm not aware of any university programs that would help, though if you're in Israel, they may have something. Look up people like Ray Archuleta, Gabe Brown, Geoff Lawton and the likes. Learn the principals that they and others like them apply on your own. You don't need a uni degree to acquire knowledge.
Leo Bell
wood chips
Sebastian Clark
Don't you bring in Herd animals to stop desertification? Thought i watched something about that.
Bentley Ross
fuck hebi kikeburg and the shitskinz build the fucking wall and let them kill each other for sand
Jaxson Sullivan
I did several subjects related to this in a mining engineering degree. Land management degrees are offered here in Australia. But it takes alot of money and a communal will to ensure areas like this can be rehabilitated both of which areas off Africa might be lacking in.
Jack Flores
herds of heavy animals can alter a desert into usable land.
Austin Diaz
Okay OP, I think you've had enough helpful responses.
Now fuck off you dirty newfag rat kike
Aiden Gutierrez
You can royally fuck up an area if you just randomly bring in herd animals. You have to bring them in and use rotational mob grazing. This allows the majority of the area to be at "rest" at any given time, and giving the sigmoid nature of grass's growth, means that more biomass will be generated. More biomass means more soil organic matter which means better nutrient profiles, better water retention, etc.... But, if you just bring the herd animals in and let them graze however they want, the land will become overgrazed and dead.
Parts of the amazon (i think) is like this, buried charcoal in upturned clay dishes
Hunter Reed
It's called Terra Preta. It's what hippies are talking about when they talk about "biochar," i.e. charcoal.
Levi Morgan
embrace the desert
the spice must flow
Eli Murphy
Just shit on it.
That's how India has one of the largest arable land areas in the world.
Ian Martin
Fuck off larping kike faggot.
Jacob Martin
Watch this anons
Jace Martinez
Chopping off wood for agriculture causes that. Chopping off wood for building grounds. Too much use of water for human needs or agriculture. It can be solved by planting trees, small fields, no monocropping, no building frenzy, no big cities in the desert, like LA or Las Vegas.
In the end the solution is always less humans.
William Garcia
LOL you're okay, pajeet.
Josiah Torres
It seems like agriculture is somewhat of a trouble maker
Carson Butler
Country flag exposed
Daniel Cruz
>solving it Why not help prepare the land for the Maker and his spice?