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The article touches on the cause. Planting trees won't help if you use the available water for other things.
by lllr_finger 7y ago
The article touches on the cause. Planting trees won't help if you use the available water for other things.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoThat's true, but once the ecosystem is established, we don't drain water, trees cause rain right?
- jandrese 7y agoThe natural state of the ecosystem is a desert. We could try to plant trees to help control the moisture in the soil and evaporation, but it would be an artificial ecosystem, propped up by human intervention.
- pvaldes 7y agoThis is a natural state, but also the most degraded state of the ecosystem. If there was a river, there was either forests or coastal rains. Would not be uncommon to find that the landscape was more humid in just two or three generations ago.
- pvaldes 7y agoYes, and trees will produce shadow and store water in trunks but also in leafs and flowers that would be directly available to animals. The effects of dry season would be mitigated, even in a desertic area. The culture to burn wild plants each year to avoid fire will eliminate the water. Is a vicious circle. Less water in soil equals to more risk of fire, so you start burning the soil, so you have less and less water and you need to keep burning .