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Oh! That's an interesting idea. I hadn't considered providing additional population / infrastructure, as an economic incentive to "regreen" an area. You would s
by nakedrobot2 9y ago
Oh! That's an interesting idea. I hadn't considered providing additional population / infrastructure, as an economic incentive to "regreen" an area. You would still need some massive efforts around planting / watering the new vegetation though. So these "new towns" would be in addition to newly forested+grass areas?
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoYes, not so long ago there were marshes where is now the Chad lake. The megalake Chad was reached by Romans who called it "lake of ippopotamus". It is a node of watercraft transport between the West Africa, the Golf of Guinea and the Congo to the South. Actually all the places between CAR and Mali could be much greener. There is even a (quite old) project to make this area a much wetter place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad_replenishment_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad_replenishment_projec...