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There is the opposite problem, which for me is way more serious: The desert growing. In Spain it grows each year in the South East. But Spain's desert is small
by pipio21 10y ago
There is the opposite problem, which for me is way more serious: The desert growing. In Spain it grows each year in the South East.
But Spain's desert is small compared to Sahara's, that is as big as Europe. Its dunes are as big as buildings, with pictures you can't really grasp the enormity of this dessert. When Sahara grows each year it literally engulfs entire villages.
In Egypt and center of Africa there are cities that were prosperous in the past that were engulfed by dessert and disappeared.
Honestly I would not shed a tear for big parts of the big dessert going away. When solar energy and desalination becomes cheaper I expect Sahara to be one of the most fertile places on Earth.
You can probably preserve the biodiversity freezing eggs and sperm of the creatures that live there. There are not so much. I believe that with pesticides and herbicides we have destroyed way more biodiversity of our world(not the desert but our forest) and nobody has complained.
- DennisP 10y agoThese are different sorts of desert. Canada's is a rare and fragile ecosystem, not a wasteland of lifeless dunes like the Sahara.
- ommunist 10y agoEver been in Sahara? It is far from being lifeless. Plenty of life there. And always was. Canada's 'rare and fragile' ecosystem is just a PR pont for Lael's Parrott attempt to get finance for another bogus 'research'.
- ommunist 10y agoDude, there have been times Mediterranean Sea was all salt marche, all of it! Do not worry. Wait 2 mln years and see it changing.
- wodenokoto 10y agoCurrently a wall of forest is being planned to stop the desertification of southern Africa. The accompanying satellite photo on the wikipedia article is quite telling of the enormous size of the desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall
- ommunist 10y ago"a wall of forest is being planned to stop the desertification of southern Africa". Very interesting, no kidding. Who is planning that? The last successful country in such endeavour is Kazakhstan. And to certain extent - China. Making 'wall of forest' is a programme with planning horizon of more than 50 years. I'd like to know the name of stakeholders.
- wodenokoto 10y agoSo apparently Africa has a union not unlike the early EU [1] and they are in charge of it, as prominently mentioned in the wikipedia article above. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union
- ommunist 10y agoThank you. Forest plantations in arid zones are tricky thing. I know that, because I studied that topic for about a year. Expensive too. I wish them 100 years of piece and prosperity to complete that, and will gladly assist, if invited.
- ommunist 10y agoThe desert growing? Move your family off there. You cannot stop desert growing. You need a degree of social cohesion and education of the adult population they have in Israel to manage consequences of long heavy drought.