That’s a very, very short time for such a major change. Makes me wonder what currently green ecosystems we take for granted a bit too easily.
But it also makes me wonder whether a reversal is within human reach. To start with, cheap solar potentially enables desalinization and irrigation at unprecedented scales… What a nice thing to feel optimistic about, if nothing else.
I’d say revesal is not just within reach, it’s just a matter of people deciding to do it. We know that just digging a bunch of crescent-shaped pits/ponds is really effective at turning desert into green space, and that’s hilariously low-tech.
Add on actually complex interventions and ngl i think it could be reversed within like a hundred years.
I mean imagine if massive desalination plants were built and the water pumped inland, we can do that shit, it’s just expensive.
Chinese solar farms in their deserts suddenly went green due to the constant shade protecting rain water, plus the water from the automated cleaning spray systems. It grew grass, so they put goats there to keep it mowed for free.
That’s a very, very short time for such a major change. Makes me wonder what currently green ecosystems we take for granted a bit too easily.
But it also makes me wonder whether a reversal is within human reach. To start with, cheap solar potentially enables desalinization and irrigation at unprecedented scales… What a nice thing to feel optimistic about, if nothing else.
I’d say revesal is not just within reach, it’s just a matter of people deciding to do it. We know that just digging a bunch of crescent-shaped pits/ponds is really effective at turning desert into green space, and that’s hilariously low-tech.
Add on actually complex interventions and ngl i think it could be reversed within like a hundred years.
I mean imagine if massive desalination plants were built and the water pumped inland, we can do that shit, it’s just expensive.
Chinese solar farms in their deserts suddenly went green due to the constant shade protecting rain water, plus the water from the automated cleaning spray systems. It grew grass, so they put goats there to keep it mowed for free.
Careful, goats is how chunks of africa got like that.
Ireland looked like the rain forest in Vancouver 8,000 years ago, but all the trees were cut down. Now it is flat and windy.
The Aral sea, drainage, happened in just a few years.
The South West in the U.S.A., might be going dry.