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You don’t need a greenhouse, you can use mulch and low till methods to maintain a strong bio layer that traps water. Nature has solved this problem, it’s just c
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
You don’t need a greenhouse, you can use mulch and low till methods to maintain a strong bio layer that traps water. Nature has solved this problem, it’s just cheaper to strip and flood, strip and flood, strip and flood, until all the topsoil and water are used up.
The timescales are slightly longer than human lifespan, so while the capital class will lose money on this in the long term, the decision makers will be dead by the time the land dies, so there’s no real incentive to care. And they’ll make a lot of money right now when they need it, while their kids are in college.