Interesting grist for the mill - The Great Sahara Forest ......
10,000 years ago, this iconic desert was unrecognizable. A new hypothesis suggests that humans may have tipped the balance
www.smithsonianmag.com
With the vast majority of wetlands here degraded and destroyed, this is a significant cause of the impacts that people erroneously attribute to climate change. A similar situation exists in the Western US, and other parts of the world. This has contributed over 1/3 of the increase of Carbon in the atmosphere.
Prior to intrusion, the Original people cared for the earth sustainably through a totemic moiety system that ensured plenty for all. Thus mostly avoiding the desertification of the land that occurred elsewhere in the world. Cool pyrolytic burns also 'built' soil ...... something that hasn't happened now for hundreds of years, until the 2019/20 inferno absolutely scared the s**t out of the occupying people - so much so, that they've turned to the Original people for help in pilot programs.
The other source of soil building is a few small scale (but growing interest and area in) recent regenerative practices such as Natural sequence Farming, and No-Kill Pasture Cropping - preferably together. Unfortunately the integral earth mulching small native animals have been decimated by introduced ferals, and along with the theft of country and removal of custodian Original people, no longer perform these roles over the bulk of the country.
A few small predator cleared and proof fenced sanctuaries have been showing remarkable gains where these remaining species of animals have been reintroduced, and bred up, cultural practices re-established, and introduced stock excluded too. Notable increases in soil carbon and reduction in uncontrolled fire fuel loads change visibly and measureably.
In concert with this rehabilitation needs to be dedicated augmentation, and erosion repair programs - and of course an end to the theft of water for profit.
With the 'Global Warming' narrative pushed to the exclusion of all other causal analysis, another threat of similar scale to the damage already caused, looms. That of the water demands of 'Green Hydrogen'. Full life cycle projections have around 24 l of water required for every litre of hydrogen produced and used. The same mistakes can't be made again, nor repair of the damage delayed.
It's no good trying to fix the climate while creating deserts at the same time.
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