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Sounds like they need a little Permaculture… https://www.permaculturenews.org/2009/12/11/greening-the-desert-ii-final/ https://www.permaculturenews.org/2009/12
by mackatsol 6y ago
Sounds like they need a little Permaculture…
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2009/12/11/greening-the-desert-ii-final/ https://www.permaculturenews.org/2009/12/11/greening-the-des...
The video above is a followup (6 years later) to greening a section of the desert in 2003.
- vram22 6y agoMore like a lot, but the right idea ...
- Kuinox 6y agoPermaculture don't work with modern tools, it works well in your garden, but require so much labor that you are economically doomed at scale.
- Retric 6y agoThat true for now, but building better tools solves a great many problems.
- Kuinox 6y agoYeah, we need sort of drones smart enough so they can pick up the food themself. With this technology most of the permaculture ideas (protecting plants with other plants) can be replaced with drones.
- triyambakam 6y agoYou haven't heard of Sepp Holzer apparently
- Kuinox 6y agoI have heard a lot of things on this subject. But I never seen a good article saying it's good. Every article I seen saying it's good only use buzzwords, few numbers, but never tell real life numbers, like how many people worked there, how many they produced, how much they sold it, etc...
- triyambakam 6y agoSo have you heard of Sepp Holzer then? He has a number of documentary films
- KaiserPro 6y agoSorry, this is patently false. Permaculture isn't about "going back in time" its about re-jigging things so that you are not having to put in a tonne of nutrients only to take them out again/let them be blown away. For example in wide open pastures it can be as "simple" as planting trees for nuts/fruit/lumber widely spaced to cut down on wind. not only that but it cuts down on the need for water because. This makes up for the reduction in sunlight getting to the grass. aquaculture is about trade-offs. its about choosing overly high yield now, with ever increasing fertiliser/feed/water inputs (thus higher costs) or reduced yield in the setup phase for much more resilient/comparatively productive and cheaper yields in future.
- Kuinox 6y agoI didn't said "going back in time". I said it was labor intensive because it doesn't works with current tools.