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The entire article reads like some sort of religious parable. It hits all the woke undertones. Man bad, nature good. Man kill nature. But one woman will save na
by dukeofdoom 4y ago
The entire article reads like some sort of religious parable. It hits all the woke undertones. Man bad, nature good. Man kill nature. But one woman will save nature. Give birth to forest. Almost ready for a Hollywood movie.
I've seen Dubai growing grass in the desert, and it literally requires almost always on sprinkler. They can grow trees too, but they water them daily. Which necessitates taking water from the ocean, and desalination. Which requires tons of energy and chemicals, and industry. Which costs tons of money. So keeping a tree, might be similar costs to what keeping a horse is here. All of it requires lots of money, and cheap labour from developing countries. Skinny malnourished men, from some poor village in India, and Pakistan working in scorching heat in the middle of the day.
So yes they can they can grow trees in the desert, because every time you fill up with gas, they get a large cut from the oil, and thus the money to grow them.
So you filling up your car, grow trees in the desert. Reality.
- mcdonje 4y agoIraq is mostly desert but it used to be the fertile crescent. Did the hanging gardens of Babylon go away because they turned off the sprinklers? What actually happened was successive waves of deforestation. The same deforestation that made Jordan arid. Reforestation is a reasonable course of action.
- dukeofdoom 4y agoWell yeah, there used to be palm trees growing in Edmonton. Doesn't mean you can grow them now in -30 degree modern day Winter. Wind patterns change over time, and so does level of participation and temperatures a region receives. Not really surprising. I'm not sure about Iraq, but if you're getting months of 40+ degrees daily and almost not rain, you're not growing a forrest without a source of water. Sorry. A single peach tree in California typically requires about 25 to 40 gallons of water per week during the summer months. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/new-prehistoric-palm-1.393927 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/new-prehistoric-palm-1.39392...
- edgyquant 4y agoTrees, grass and shrubs might be costly to kickstart but they retain water in the soil and that kind of thing compounds. It’s obviously an effort to kickstart the greening of a desert.