[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. It's crap -- there's a recent meme that nomadic herders, who destroy environment over wide areas due to their constant moves after exhausting local food supplies, exacerbate desertification. It's part of the larger luddite scheme to destroy civilization and foster dependency on a small power elite.

• Human settlements far older than suspected discovered in South America. [2002]
• Rainforest Researchers Hit Paydirt (Farming 11K Years Ago in South America) [2002]
• An origin of new world agriculture in coastal Ecuador (12,000 BP) [2003]
• Amazonian find stuns researchers [2003]
• Scientists Explore Lakefront Property, in the Sahara [2004]
• Prehistoric Desert Town Found In Western Sahara (15,000 Years Old) [2004]
• Stone Age Cemetery, Artifacts Un Earthed In Sahara [2005]
• Ancient drought 'changed history' [2005]
• Ancient lakes of the Sahara [2006]
• Reproducing the Amazon's black soil could bolster fertility and remove carbon from atmosphere [2006]
• Sahara Desert Was Once Lush and Populated [2006]
• Exodus From Drying Sahara Gave Rise to Pharaohs, Study Says [2006]
• The African Source Of The Amazon's Fertilizer [2006]
• Migration of Early Humans From Africa Aided By Wet Weather [2007]
• Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert [2007]
• Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis [2008]
• UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara's prehistoric art [2008]
• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed [2008]
• The Tassili n'Ajjer [Algeria] : birthplace of ancient Egypt ? [2008]
• Sahara dried out slowly, not abruptly: study [2008]
• Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia, Study Says [2008]
• In Search Of The Lost Sahara [2008]
• US scientists find stone age burial ground in Sahara [2008]
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period [2008]
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period [2008]
• The Green Sahara, A Desert In Bloom [2008]
• NASA video shows how dust from Sahara Desert fuels Amazon rain forest [2015]
• Strongest sand storm ever captured on satellite over the Sahara [2004]
• Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation and chemistry [2013]
• Sahara dried out slowly, not abruptly: study [2008]
• Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain [2009]
• Strange Ancient Crocodiles Swam the Sahara [2009]
• The Lost City: A discovery in the desert could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt [2010]
• Stone age etchings found in Amazon basin as river levels fall [2010]
• Lost Cities of the Sahara [2010]
• Fish Swam the Sahara, Bolstering Out of Africa Theory [2010]
• Mysterious Earthen Rings Predate Amazon Rainforest [2014]
• Entomologist Confirms First Saharan Farming 10,000 Years Ago [2018]

Evolution in Your Face
by Patrick Huyghe
Omni

Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids. These fish, which are popular in aquariums, are deep-bodied and have one nostril, rather than the usual two, on each side of the head. Seismic profiles and cores of the lake taken by a team headed by Thomas C. Johnson of the University of Minnesota, reveal that the lake dried up completely about 12,400 years ago. This means that the rate of speciation of cichlid fishes has been extremely rapid: something on average of one new species every 40 years!

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[SunkenCiv]

Whoopsie. Hang up the phone, or post, but don't do both (note to self).

there's a recent meme that nomadic herders, who destroy environment over wide areas due to their constant moves after exhausting local food supplies, exacerbate desertification.

s/b

there's a recent meme that nomadic herders, who destroy environment over wide areas due to their constant moves after exhausting local food supplies, DON'T exacerbate desertification.

[SunkenCiv]

Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation
The Herald (UK) | 11-11-2003 | Martin Willians
Posted on 11/16/2003 11:05:23 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1022897/posts

Climate Key To Sphinx’s Riddle
Scotsman | 1-7-2006 | Jeremy Watson
Posted on 01/08/2007 11:27:02 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764249/posts