You had me worried for a moment. I thought the world's land was turning to dessert.
Too bad the rest of the world is too smart to listen to us. No, sirree... they like their inefficient and wasteful habits when it comes to farming. And none of those GM crops which need less water and are resistant to spoilage.
What do we know? We just feed our people so well.
The sky is falling (again).
I couldn't make it all the way through the article. Where does it say it's Americas fault?
Time to get out my little plastic bucket and shovel.
Quote of the week?
UN scams turning to graft at alarming speed.
I seem to remember an article posted a few weeks ago about how global warming would make the earth wetter.
Uninhabitable????? Last I checked there were plenty of people living in deserts around the world.....
Comedy Clown Zone Bumps
Slaughter all the grazing animals that range through the marginal lands that are on the edge of deserts. And more than anything, do not turn already semi-arid regions into farming enterprises with irrigation water. This accelerates the growth and spread of deserts more than any other single enterprise mankind engages in.
Why? Because even the freshest of irrigation water carries some salinity. The water is flushed out acrose the irrigated tract, and part of it evaporates, concentrating the salinity of the remaining water. Over time, unless certain steps are taken, the salinity of the soil rises to the point that only salt-tolerant plants thrive there.
By laying sub-soil drainage tile, so that the excess somewhat more saline water is drained away, carrying the salt with it, the tendency for the irrigated tract to to turn saline is averted. But it takes a LOT of extra irrigation water to assure the salinity does not rise to serious levels, and the effluent will be even more salty, to the detriment of downstream users of the water.
Yaaaawwwnnnnnn.........