Maowusu was grassland as recently as 218 BC and has variously been a marsh, a desert, a plain, and so on in recent epochs. Greening it is mostly an anti-desertification strategy to keep it from growing and let it re-develop into pastoral land again. It’s small and hasn’t been a desert for very long to begin with.
Yeah, I read somewhere that the Sahara desert is very important to the Amazon Forest. Apparently, the desert sand travel over the ocean to fertilize that part of the world. Fascinating stuff!
Leaving nature alone would’ve been a better move in retrospect (like building within it instead of destroying it), but I feel like we’ve lost that battle
Yeah there’s a whole lot of active intervention into the environment that we do to actively combat the ways we intervene passively (eg forest planting, irrigation, rewilding, species management) that is not necessarily beneficial to the long-term habitation of our planet.
That being said, there are much smarter people than myself that are much better at finding the balance between interventionism and pacifism when it comes to ecology. Of course we have some knowledge of social ecology floating around on hexbear but I’d love to see some more discussion on how the next socialism should interact with nature.
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Maowusu was grassland as recently as 218 BC and has variously been a marsh, a desert, a plain, and so on in recent epochs. Greening it is mostly an anti-desertification strategy to keep it from growing and let it re-develop into pastoral land again. It’s small and hasn’t been a desert for very long to begin with.
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Yeah, I read somewhere that the Sahara desert is very important to the Amazon Forest. Apparently, the desert sand travel over the ocean to fertilize that part of the world. Fascinating stuff!
Leaving nature alone would’ve been a better move in retrospect (like building within it instead of destroying it), but I feel like we’ve lost that battle
Industrialization really fucking blows
Yeah there’s a whole lot of active intervention into the environment that we do to actively combat the ways we intervene passively (eg forest planting, irrigation, rewilding, species management) that is not necessarily beneficial to the long-term habitation of our planet.
That being said, there are much smarter people than myself that are much better at finding the balance between interventionism and pacifism when it comes to ecology. Of course we have some knowledge of social ecology floating around on hexbear but I’d love to see some more discussion on how the next socialism should interact with nature.
Sparrow disaster but worldwide?