Excerpted per rules.
Read past the inevitable climate change blather. There's some pretty cool stuff going on here - water purification and desert farming technology, cooperation between Jordan and Israel, and work to turn deserts into forests.
To: Jagermonster
I was doing this in Israel in the 1970’s. As a matter of fact, I was a short walk away from Jordan.
2 posted on
10/04/2017 4:00:19 PM PDT by
EQAndyBuzz
(“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
To: Jagermonster
Per Jordan FR rules:
4 posted on
10/04/2017 4:04:44 PM PDT by
EEGator
To: Jagermonster
8 posted on
10/04/2017 4:15:56 PM PDT by
Mears
To: Jagermonster
...while increasing desertification due to over-grazing and improper irrigation techniques...That's what the author means by "climate change?"
10 posted on
10/04/2017 4:58:32 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
To: Jagermonster
Several years ago, Geoff Lawton started a project in Jordan called Greening the Desert. He had all kinds of stuff growing good and there were even mushrooms growing under the mulched areas. The locals had never seen a mushroom and thought there was something strange/bad going on.
Geoff Lawton turned it over to the locals after a while and within a year, it was desert again because they were just taking from the system and not maintaining or putting anything back into it.
Writers from centuries ago talked of muslim’s sloppy agricultural practices.
You can lead a horse to water but.......
13 posted on
10/05/2017 7:30:57 AM PDT by
Pollard
(TRUMP 2016)
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14 posted on
10/06/2017 10:53:22 AM PDT by
SJackson
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To: Jagermonster
Israel is in an unique position to help Arabs, which is why they hate us so.
15 posted on
10/07/2017 11:27:11 AM PDT by
Eleutheria5
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