What If We Terraformed the Sahara Desert?
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Date: 2023-11-26
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Marshall
The price tag does not have to be that big cause doing anything China's way is likely to fail. cause any success they claim to have is either an outright lie or a white lie at best. You start on the edges of The Sahara and begin pushing back the progress it has seen over the many decades. Getting rid of it completely is something that should not even be considered. but reducing it's size to something more akin to ancient times is a far better goal. And you do this with giant herds of animals trampling down the ground on a diet of wild grasses and shrubs. beating in the seeds and fertilizer of their waste as they go. This will shift the edges of the Sahara into more of a savannah. And from there we can begin building watering holes to catch what rainwater comes through. Find the contours of the land and dig swales and berms to catch the water as it flows down planting pioneer trees along those lines.
This process should be refined so that it focuses on reclaiming desert land for agricultural production. We want grasslands for your cattle, goats, and sheep to graze on. while starting the growing of food forests. This idea means it does not cost money. It means it makes money. We are not reclaiming land to feed it to locusts or to expand the global warming business model. We are reclaiming land so we can feed humanity. And that sort of thing will gain momentum. As poor men become rich and train their sons and their hands to do as they have done we will see progress increase every generation.
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The price tag does not have to be that big cause doing anything China's way is likely to fail. cause any success they claim to have is either an outright lie or a white lie at best. You start on the edges of The Sahara and begin pushing back the progress it has seen over the many decades. Getting rid of it completely is something that should not even be considered. but reducing it's size to something more akin to ancient times is a far better goal. And you do this with giant herds of animals trampling down the ground on a diet of wild grasses and shrubs. beating in the seeds and fertilizer of their waste as they go. This will shift the edges of the Sahara into more of a savannah. And from there we can begin building watering holes to catch what rainwater comes through. Find the contours of the land and dig swales and berms to catch the water as it flows down planting pioneer trees along those lines.
This process should be refined so that it focuses on reclaiming desert land for agricultural production. We want grasslands for your cattle, goats, and sheep to graze on. while starting the growing of food forests. This idea means it does not cost money. It means it makes money. We are not reclaiming land to feed it to locusts or to expand the global warming business model. We are reclaiming land so we can feed humanity. And that sort of thing will gain momentum. As poor men become rich and train their sons and their hands to do as they have done we will see progress increase every generation.
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Stephen
A Single Men from the State of Rajasthan in India transform desert into forest without price tag. Not much needed of Price tag. China turns Desert into Forest.
There will be nothing change turning Sahara Desert into Forest. We must do that planting trees and plants process in Sahara Desert. So many dense Rain Forest which is not needed Desert sand. We don't know what will happen suddenly. In 2019, almost half of the Forest Area of Amazon Forest accidentally burn down by fire.
What if our Amazon Forest again suddenly burned out by fire?
Everyday, we human around the World cut down Millions of Trees. Only few peoples are planting trees. It tooks more than 3 to 4 decades for trees to grow matured. Nothing will happen turning Sahara Desert into Forest. Atleast 50% Area of Sahara Desert can turn it into forest and the remaining 50% sand can
Preserve as Desert.
We could terraformed Desert Area of Australia and India into Forest.
So that, the Nature could be kept in balance
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A Single Men from the State of Rajasthan in India transform desert into forest without price tag. Not much needed of Price tag. China turns Desert into Forest.
There will be nothing change turning Sahara Desert into Forest. We must do that planting trees and plants process in Sahara Desert. So many dense Rain Forest which is not needed Desert sand. We don't know what will happen suddenly. In 2019, almost half of the Forest Area of Amazon Forest accidentally burn down by fire.
What if our Amazon Forest again suddenly burned out by fire?
Everyday, we human around the World cut down Millions of Trees. Only few peoples are planting trees. It tooks more than 3 to 4 decades for trees to grow matured. Nothing will happen turning Sahara Desert into Forest. Atleast 50% Area of Sahara Desert can turn it into forest and the remaining 50% sand can
Preserve as Desert.
We could terraformed Desert Area of Australia and India into Forest.
So that, the Nature could be kept in balance
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atmore
It is incredibly simple to bring the Sahara back to life and you won't believe how simple it is. Water. All you have to do is construct a massive sprinkler system throughout the region and it will come back to life in less than 10 years. That's right sprinkler systems, of course, not a small one but a very big one using water from the two oceans on either side of it. Just remove the salt first and place pumps on either end run by their own power stations and your done. Now the Sahara will live again, hopefully with out the giant trees and, of course, those previous giant predators.
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It is incredibly simple to bring the Sahara back to life and you won't believe how simple it is. Water. All you have to do is construct a massive sprinkler system throughout the region and it will come back to life in less than 10 years. That's right sprinkler systems, of course, not a small one but a very big one using water from the two oceans on either side of it. Just remove the salt first and place pumps on either end run by their own power stations and your done. Now the Sahara will live again, hopefully with out the giant trees and, of course, those previous giant predators.
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Jim
The video is marred by the frequent references to a non-problem: -Climate change. - That is all a fiction and a scam, and associating this most interesting idea with it reduces its credibility. Greening the desert would be magnificent in its own right, leading to increased food production and living space.
The other flaw was the assumption that the huge cost must be carried by governments. Why? - why not sell the desert to private, profit-seeking investors in parcels, of 10, 000 sq km at a time? Entrepreneurial ingenuity would find a way to make it bloom.
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The video is marred by the frequent references to a non-problem: -Climate change. - That is all a fiction and a scam, and associating this most interesting idea with it reduces its credibility. Greening the desert would be magnificent in its own right, leading to increased food production and living space.
The other flaw was the assumption that the huge cost must be carried by governments. Why? - why not sell the desert to private, profit-seeking investors in parcels, of 10, 000 sq km at a time? Entrepreneurial ingenuity would find a way to make it bloom.
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Sonny
Interesting but just as interesting as saying let's move 100 million people to Mars. Not gonna happen. The Sahara comes and goes on a cycle. Obviously the water issue would just not be feasible to start off. Irrigate about 3. 5 million square miles? Common! The tilt in the earth is what causes the Sahara to cycle back and forth between green and desert. Planting trees isnt going to change the solar radiation at the Earth's current tilt. Just like ice ages, we just gotta wait and it'll be green again on it's own.
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Interesting but just as interesting as saying let's move 100 million people to Mars. Not gonna happen. The Sahara comes and goes on a cycle. Obviously the water issue would just not be feasible to start off. Irrigate about 3. 5 million square miles? Common! The tilt in the earth is what causes the Sahara to cycle back and forth between green and desert. Planting trees isnt going to change the solar radiation at the Earth's current tilt. Just like ice ages, we just gotta wait and it'll be green again on it's own.
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Stephen
Nothing will effect to Amazon Forest.
What about Forests of South East Asian Countries? No needed any desert sand.
We Human cut down over Million Trees each year. And some forest Accidentally burn down by fires. Almost half of Amazon Forest were fired in 2019.
It tooks more than 30 years to grow fully for Trees.
What if we lost so many forest by fires?
It's better to transform half of Sahara Desert into Forest. And Desert of some others Countries. So that, it could help Global warming
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Nothing will effect to Amazon Forest.
What about Forests of South East Asian Countries? No needed any desert sand.
We Human cut down over Million Trees each year. And some forest Accidentally burn down by fires. Almost half of Amazon Forest were fired in 2019.
It tooks more than 30 years to grow fully for Trees.
What if we lost so many forest by fires?
It's better to transform half of Sahara Desert into Forest. And Desert of some others Countries. So that, it could help Global warming
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Jay
You can green the whole Sahara. The high places will remain desert. The low lands can be water even by diverting most of the Nile water at the point it meets the sea. Long water tunnels could be used to connect the varies low lands in the Sahara. Allowing sections of natural flow would be cheaper and create large water bodies but increase evaporation. Creating canals would make the water travel much further before running out. If we can put a man on Mars, we can divert the Nile waters to the Sahara.
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You can green the whole Sahara. The high places will remain desert. The low lands can be water even by diverting most of the Nile water at the point it meets the sea. Long water tunnels could be used to connect the varies low lands in the Sahara. Allowing sections of natural flow would be cheaper and create large water bodies but increase evaporation. Creating canals would make the water travel much further before running out. If we can put a man on Mars, we can divert the Nile waters to the Sahara.
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Mart34
Dust from the saharan desert gets blown over the world, and one place that benefits is surprisingly the Amazon rain forest. The Dust acts like a natural fertiliser rich in phosphorus, essential to the amazon rainforest. The whole world and nature is interconnected in many ways, some of which we don't even understand yet. Terraforming the desert in such a short period of time, could have catastrophic consequences.
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Dust from the saharan desert gets blown over the world, and one place that benefits is surprisingly the Amazon rain forest. The Dust acts like a natural fertiliser rich in phosphorus, essential to the amazon rainforest. The whole world and nature is interconnected in many ways, some of which we don't even understand yet. Terraforming the desert in such a short period of time, could have catastrophic consequences.
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Chase
Rather than relying solely on desalination water treatment plants to get the water, it would probably be beneficial to also connect pipelines from the ocean that would drain into massive man-made lakes in the Sahara. The evaporated water would enter into the water cycle and add rain into the environment, and since it's the desert, it's not like the salt water lake would damage the environment.
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Rather than relying solely on desalination water treatment plants to get the water, it would probably be beneficial to also connect pipelines from the ocean that would drain into massive man-made lakes in the Sahara. The evaporated water would enter into the water cycle and add rain into the environment, and since it's the desert, it's not like the salt water lake would damage the environment.
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Victor
Simple applicable first step method is to plant edible cactus that don't need proper watering as cactus absorb water molecules from the atmosphere and cactus physical system store so much water by grinding the havested cactus and use it to hydrate gradually specific areas to let. Another types of dessert native plants can start Thier natural journey on greening the dessert
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Simple applicable first step method is to plant edible cactus that don't need proper watering as cactus absorb water molecules from the atmosphere and cactus physical system store so much water by grinding the havested cactus and use it to hydrate gradually specific areas to let. Another types of dessert native plants can start Thier natural journey on greening the dessert
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jan
this is interesting idea. But if turning Sahara to forest destroys Amazon forest is not worth to try. What about Patagonia? that landscape is treeless but has got some grasses which stops sand flowing. Or Australian deserts? Does their sand is beneficial for forest somewhere else? All the pros and cons must be studied. Because sometimes good intentions bring worst results
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this is interesting idea. But if turning Sahara to forest destroys Amazon forest is not worth to try. What about Patagonia? that landscape is treeless but has got some grasses which stops sand flowing. Or Australian deserts? Does their sand is beneficial for forest somewhere else? All the pros and cons must be studied. Because sometimes good intentions bring worst results
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David
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Brandon
So to -fight climate change- we should terraform the earth and in doing so actually changing climate for better or worse we don't know. Doesn't make sense to eliminate a biome from the Earth in this manner to pacify human ego for alleged climate change. Get your mouths off the tailpipe people!
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So to -fight climate change- we should terraform the earth and in doing so actually changing climate for better or worse we don't know. Doesn't make sense to eliminate a biome from the Earth in this manner to pacify human ego for alleged climate change. Get your mouths off the tailpipe people!
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No
So basically, they trying to terraform another planet when they cant even terraform our own planet. hilarious. also, the video is full of excuses.
Lets save our planet, lets take care of it while it takes care of us, instead of trying to look for another planet that can be a living hell.
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So basically, they trying to terraform another planet when they cant even terraform our own planet. hilarious. also, the video is full of excuses.
Lets save our planet, lets take care of it while it takes care of us, instead of trying to look for another planet that can be a living hell.
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Crow
Eucalyptus trees are absolutely NOT what would be good for the Sahara. They-re notoriously invasive and horrible about causing wildfires. If the Sahara is going to be terraformed, it should be terraformed with native plants, introducing invasive species is never a good idea
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Eucalyptus trees are absolutely NOT what would be good for the Sahara. They-re notoriously invasive and horrible about causing wildfires. If the Sahara is going to be terraformed, it should be terraformed with native plants, introducing invasive species is never a good idea
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AA
Why dont people realize the amazon rainforest and green sahara have literally existed at the same time together multiple times? Amazon has been around for 55 million years. Green Sahara would do less damage to the Amazon than Global Warming is doing to it right now
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Why dont people realize the amazon rainforest and green sahara have literally existed at the same time together multiple times? Amazon has been around for 55 million years. Green Sahara would do less damage to the Amazon than Global Warming is doing to it right now
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mind
don't desalinate the water from the ocean and pump into desert. Instead build deep trenches from the ocean all the way to the mountains. Desalinate there and pump water all the way to the top of the mountains and spill. Use drones to sweep salt in trenches.
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don't desalinate the water from the ocean and pump into desert. Instead build deep trenches from the ocean all the way to the mountains. Desalinate there and pump water all the way to the top of the mountains and spill. Use drones to sweep salt in trenches.
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Eric
America Needs Some Second Acceptable Way to overthrow the government;
Other Than it being allowed Only by african heroin injection, prior to, or shortly following, Each Inauguration.
we are running out of topsoil and fossil water resources.
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America Needs Some Second Acceptable Way to overthrow the government;
Other Than it being allowed Only by african heroin injection, prior to, or shortly following, Each Inauguration.
we are running out of topsoil and fossil water resources.
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Swapnil
Remember my words humanity will have to spend most of its budget in converting deserts into Greenland soon. Its not ocean level rising neither a comet which will destroy life any soon. its going to be desertification of forest.
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Remember my words humanity will have to spend most of its budget in converting deserts into Greenland soon. Its not ocean level rising neither a comet which will destroy life any soon. its going to be desertification of forest.
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oscar
That last bit also is crucial because all that dust carries the minerals that will feed large parts of the ocean where plancton thrives. It's literally a whole cycle of the Atlantic Ocean, and should not be messed with.
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That last bit also is crucial because all that dust carries the minerals that will feed large parts of the ocean where plancton thrives. It's literally a whole cycle of the Atlantic Ocean, and should not be messed with.
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Pikazilla640
I think we should seriously consider this before we even THINK about crazy things like terraforming mars, if we are at natures mercy on our own home planet than we have zero reason to have such bold ambitions
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I think we should seriously consider this before we even THINK about crazy things like terraforming mars, if we are at natures mercy on our own home planet than we have zero reason to have such bold ambitions
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Lisa
It already has been a tropical green area lol, and it will be again as the ice age continues to recede. All on its own with no interference from us. They have found fossilized tropical fronds in the arctic folks -
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It already has been a tropical green area lol, and it will be again as the ice age continues to recede. All on its own with no interference from us. They have found fossilized tropical fronds in the arctic folks -
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robheusd
If we green the complete Sahara, this will mean that the Sahara sand will no longer provide nutrients to the coastal waters and the amazon rain forest, so it will have negative impact on global scale.
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If we green the complete Sahara, this will mean that the Sahara sand will no longer provide nutrients to the coastal waters and the amazon rain forest, so it will have negative impact on global scale.
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Onic
Sahara ever be green and in future gonna be future again naturaly, We now is still in dry age of sahara but future there will be lot rain in sahara and that will make sahara become into green era again
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Sahara ever be green and in future gonna be future again naturaly, We now is still in dry age of sahara but future there will be lot rain in sahara and that will make sahara become into green era again
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Jameel
How sad!
Some so called geniuses are trying to terraform other planets such as Mars.
Instead, if we tried and terraform and reforest our own plant, we could live in a real paradise.
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How sad!
Some so called geniuses are trying to terraform other planets such as Mars.
Instead, if we tried and terraform and reforest our own plant, we could live in a real paradise.
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Raymond
Planting one kind of tree would be good for the short term. But without diversity of plants, disease would eventually start killing the trees and your back to square one.
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Planting one kind of tree would be good for the short term. But without diversity of plants, disease would eventually start killing the trees and your back to square one.
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Hadesillo
That would be interesting, but why not think first about how to stop the deforestation of the Amazon or the Borneo rainforests. It seems cheaper and easier to do.
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That would be interesting, but why not think first about how to stop the deforestation of the Amazon or the Borneo rainforests. It seems cheaper and easier to do.
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Tech
Dont waster your time. The Canadian government has told us trees dont remove carbon from the air. Thats why we get a carbon tax. Not because of their mismanagement.
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Dont waster your time. The Canadian government has told us trees dont remove carbon from the air. Thats why we get a carbon tax. Not because of their mismanagement.
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Nikke
It's kind of funny how they seriously talk about colonizing and even terraforming mars but yet there's still those two big inhabitable deserts like Sahara and Gobi.
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It's kind of funny how they seriously talk about colonizing and even terraforming mars but yet there's still those two big inhabitable deserts like Sahara and Gobi.
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Mehboob
It's good. but what about the Forest we have in the world. fires came through laser from the gaints countries. how can civil society. take part to save it.
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It's good. but what about the Forest we have in the world. fires came through laser from the gaints countries. how can civil society. take part to save it.
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