Great Green Wall Some positive news for a change

[lg325]

The Great Green Wall: A 5,000-mile living barrier to hold back the world's largest desert (msn.com) Agriculture project in African reclaiming the land.

 

[konradv]

The Great Green Wall: A 5,000-mile living barrier to hold back the world's largest desert (msn.com) Agriculture project in African reclaiming the land.

Sounds great and could be a big CO2 sink to counter GW, except we're already losing so much forest in the Amazon.

 

[surada]

The Great Green Wall: A 5,000-mile living barrier to hold back the world's largest desert (msn.com) Agriculture project in African reclaiming the land.

This is great.

excerpt:

The Sahel region, a semi-arid belt that acts as a buffer zone just south of the desert, is most affected. Water, already scarce, is becoming scarcer. Soil quality is deteriorating, and a lack of vegetation is leading to food insecurity. The UN estimates roughly 135 million people who depend on these degraded lands are at risk.

 

[Concerned American]

The Great Green Wall: A 5,000-mile living barrier to hold back the world's largest desert (msn.com) Agriculture project in African reclaiming the land.

This is great.

excerpt:

The Sahel region, a semi-arid belt that acts as a buffer zone just south of the desert, is most affected. Water, already scarce, is becoming scarcer. Soil quality is deteriorating, and a lack of vegetation is leading to food insecurity. The UN estimates roughly 135 million people who depend on these degraded lands are at risk.

Man's hubris never ceases to amaze me. We are now planting a 5K mile of vegetation to overcome the climate effects that are brought about by our refusal to preserve rain forests that are being destroyed at a record clip. Leave it to man to figure they are smarter than God.

 

[Unkotare]

The Great Green Wall: A 5,000-mile living barrier to hold back the world's largest desert (msn.com) Agriculture project in African reclaiming the land.

There's only one "great green wall."

 

[surada]

The Great Green Wall: A 5,000-mile living barrier to hold back the world's largest desert (msn.com) Agriculture project in African reclaiming the land.

This is great.

excerpt:

The Sahel region, a semi-arid belt that acts as a buffer zone just south of the desert, is most affected. Water, already scarce, is becoming scarcer. Soil quality is deteriorating, and a lack of vegetation is leading to food insecurity. The UN estimates roughly 135 million people who depend on these degraded lands are at risk.

Man's hubris never ceases to amaze me. We are now planting a 5K mile of vegetation to overcome the climate effects that are brought about by our refusal to preserve rain forests that are being destroyed at a record clip. Leave it to man to figure they are smarter than God.

They started reclaiming desert to pasture in Zimbabwe over ten years ago using goats.

 

[Concerned American]

The Great Green Wall: A 5,000-mile living barrier to hold back the world's largest desert (msn.com) Agriculture project in African reclaiming the land.

This is great.

excerpt:

The Sahel region, a semi-arid belt that acts as a buffer zone just south of the desert, is most affected. Water, already scarce, is becoming scarcer. Soil quality is deteriorating, and a lack of vegetation is leading to food insecurity. The UN estimates roughly 135 million people who depend on these degraded lands are at risk.

Man's hubris never ceases to amaze me. We are now planting a 5K mile of vegetation to overcome the climate effects that are brought about by our refusal to preserve rain forests that are being destroyed at a record clip. Leave it to man to figure they are smarter than God.

They started reclaiming desert to pasture in Zimbabwe over ten years ago using goats.

Meh.