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Immense and growing despite efforts to stop it. If there is one environment on the planet not in risk it's the Sahara. A lot of Egypt, Northern Africa, Iraq/Pa
by Avshalom 11y ago
Immense and growing despite efforts to stop it.
If there is one environment on the planet not in risk it's the Sahara. A lot of Egypt, Northern Africa, Iraq/Palestine would have looked like the American Midwest back when they were empires.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoTrue its a man-made desert (despite some published nonsense about 'shifts in the earth's axis' causing weather changes). So are most of the ecosystems on the planet, by now. The issue is, changing relatively stable ecosystems is done at our peril. I just want to point out how little we really care about this stuff - to the point we enthusiastically endorse mega projects that amount to terraforming, with so little discussion.