It would be impossible for me to be less surprised or to care less.
They need cows and migratory people more than trees. The key is to change the albedo and increase transpiration to draw the monsoon to the north east.
>>The plan: to plant a “wall” of trees spanning the entire width of Africa — 4,350 miles long and 10 miles wide — to fight desertification in the Sahel, the arid region to the south of the Sahara desert.
Seems like “the plan” was simply to embezzle billions of dollars with “fighting desertification” as only a hook to separate fools from their money.
Translation: The usual international hucksters got rich off it.
I was taught that deserts are an important part of our ecosystem. We have mountains, deserts, coastal plains, plains, rain forest, savannahs, dry forests, ice caps, oceans. . . all are vital. Why demonize the desert?
US contributions make up roughly 28% of the UN’s budget. So, yeah. Your tax dollars at “work”. Not that anyone cares.
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The Desert has no clue what walls are ,LOL
Africa wins again. The one place where the birth rate is still positive and yet no sane country wants most of these people . Over one billion and nearly every country there is a S*hole.
Maybe the Guild Navigators took all the spice and retired to Arakis.
Eco-nut criminals continue their grift. What idiocy!
IT IS AFRICA-——
About the only African aid project I’ve heard of that sounded like it would work were the little ones with an income coming from it, small loans to buy a woman a sewing machine and material to get her started for example, manageable projects that motivated individuals can utilize to enrich their family, leading to small incremental growth among the larger group. This household has a little income and that household has a little income and capitalism slowly starts creating buying and selling within that group.
Africans don’t seem to have a sense of cooperation or of the future so big projects end up just contributing to the corruption and a temporary distribution of whatever monies flow through it, which is why all the infrastructure of colonialism from roads and trains didn’t last, giving them golden gooses doesn’t help because they feast on it that night but giving individuals little personalized golden gooses may help build a structure and bring market concepts to the remote populations.
It could just be that they will never be able to build complex societies and that it will always be a few wealthy, a few servants, and a lot of not very intelligent lazy day to day people satisfied with scratching out a living and taking a handout or an easy steal when they can get it.
A lot of nations of the world have large black populations, do they all look similar, and do they all seem similar to Africa.
Greenies wasting billions of dollars. Nothing new.
“This multi-billion dollar project was launched by the African Union in 2007.”
Yeah, I wonder where those billions came from.
What a waste!
“entangled in a labyrinth of opaque financing.”
Anybody care to guess what that means? Bueller?
Probably just a stunt to prove that walls don’t work.
Oh yeah, and to steal as much money as possible.
Eighteen years later, vast amounts of money have been spent, yet most of the planned Wall remains no more green than Abdi Guelleh’s barren field. What began as one of the world’s most ambitious ecological undertakings has in many ways devolved into a cautionary tale of poorly planned projects, lacking in local participation and entangled in a labyrinth of opaque financing.
i heard that the great green wall was supposed to pass right through the middle of Wakanda ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)
The original dimensions of the “wall” were to be 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,775 km (4,831 mi) long, but the program expanded to encompass nations in both northern and western Africa. The concept evolved into promoting water harvesting techniques, greenery protection and improving indigenous land use techniques, aimed at creating a mosaic of green and productive landscapes across North Africa.[1] Later it adopted the view that desert boundaries change based on rainfall variations.[2]
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Originally a tree planting initiative, the project evolved into a development programming tool. In 2007, the Conference of Heads of State and Government (CHSG)[citation needed] directed the project to tackle the social, economic and environmental impacts of land degradation and desertification.[9]