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I had just read this article. Quite interesting.
“As the Earth’s orbit slowly changed”
The earth’s orbit around the sun has not changed.
It’s still a vibrant ecosystem
Just a dry one
Just try to build a nuke plant or coal mine in the middle of it
There are numerous fossils of whales in the Sahara.
Back when the world last experience global warming, Greenland was green, the glaciers on Greenland, the Antarctic, north America and northern Eurasia melted, the sea level rose, humidity rose, abundant rains fell and life flourished.
[[Humans delayed the onset of the Sahara desert by 500 years]]
Evil man prevented a desert? Oh the horror!
The desert was accelerated during the muslim conquest of North Africa when they used very large herds of goats to strip the vegetation from most of North Africa which had been the grain basket to the Ancient World.
This sounds like heresy...unless we get blame the White Man for altering planetary movement.
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And they want to pretend that its ‘science.’
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“Humans delayed the onset of the Sahara desert by 500 years”
Woo hoo! Way to go humans!
What?? Humans did something good for the planet?? That’s not what I learned in school!
"...an enormous system of cultivation and terracing made great expanses of the Middle East and North Africa fertile and productive. It was the existence of this agricultural infrastructure that permitted the existence of the late classical cities, and conversely, it was the destruction of the same infrastructure which led to their abandonment. But what could have caused such a catastrophe?
" What caused the end of classical civilization? Archaeologists and historians have demonstrated again and again over the past century that the real centre of Graeco-Roman civilization was – and in a sense always had been – in the East. Whoever or whatever destroyed the agriculture and the great cities of the East in the seventh century was also responsible for terminating classical civilization and initiating that relatively dark and unknown epoch we have come to call the Middle Ages.
" In an article entitled “The Decline of North Africa since the Roman Occupation: Climatic or Human?” he provides a detailed outline of the problem. I shall quote him at some length, as what he says is most instructive:
“The Romans were an agricultural people who expanded into their Mediterranean empire from a relatively humid base in Italy. It was natural that they should extend this approach to the natural environment into the African provinces. The Arabs were on the contrary a nomadic people, nurtured in the true desert of Arabia, and totally unused to an agricultural economy.
Their technique was unequal to understanding or managing the highly-developed irrigation works of North Africa bequeathed to them by the Romans, and they had no need for dependence on the agriculture which these works had supported. Their different use of the land does not need to be explained by a change in climate. No military conquest is conducive to the maintenance of civil order nor the administration and technical organization which an intricate irrigation economy requires, especially when the conquerors are nomads. The Arab conquest destroyed the Roman irrigation works, or allowed them to deteriorate, and established in their stead a nomadic pastoral economy over most of North Africa.”
Yet even allowing for the destructiveness of the Arabs, and for their habitual misuse of agricultural land, this in itself does not explain the rapid and complete degradation of the cultivated territories of the Middle East and North Africa. After all, we must suppose that native husbandmen would not lightly have permitted incoming Arab nomads to graze their goats on carefully tilled and planted fields. Furthermore, the Middle East and North Africa had seen numerous invasions before, some of them very violent indeed, but none of them led to the complete destruction of the agriculture of the region. What was so different about the Arab Invasion?
In order to answer this question we need to consider the unique nature of Islam and in particular its application of political and social control through sharia law...."