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Well, if you dig deep enough holes, they will. That's how over a million people live in the Rajasthan desert in India.
by willhslade 7y ago
Well, if you dig deep enough holes, they will. That's how over a million people live in the Rajasthan desert in India.
- blunte 7y agoBut if your surface situation isn't good (lack of trees and other water capturing/retaining systems), you will eventually run out of water. Following permaculture principles, you can transform a region from barren (where water evaporates and leaves your area) to a relative oasis. There are several current desert permaculture projects that illustrate this. We just need to start doing this on a large scale - at least within and around regions of population. Then much more of the pumped water will remain in the local system. As a bonus, local climates will be cooler on average. And you can grow a lot of food, if you choose to.
- 6DM 7y agoJust to add to your point, this guy transformed the land more or less by planting grasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPkcpGmflE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPkcpGmflE
- erikpukinskis 7y agoPlanting pioneer species, building berms (to slow runoff), and fencing out grazers is the basic formula for rehabilitating dead land.
- User23 7y agoI learned this from Dune. The world needs more well-written ecological novels.
- omosubi 7y agoGreat documentary - thanks for sharing
- theptip 7y ago> you will eventually run out of water. In the context of the GP comment, isn't that entirely dependent on how deep your holes are? By definition, if you dig holes "deep enough", then you won't run out of water. And they are providing a concrete example of somewhere that they do dig holes deep enough to not run out of water (though I'm not sure how constrained the population growth is there).