NitroX
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| 23/03/15 12:47 PM |
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Re: Africa’s disputed trees
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Sorry but in my opinion a complete piffel of an article.
Sea levels rising is the cause of ground water becoming more salty????
No. If you reduce the amount of freshwater in a water table, the salt water in the lower levels of the water table will rise, making bores more salty. Nothing to do with so called climate change and predicted/forecast/prophesized sea levels rising "sometime in the future".
A 15 km "great wall of trees" will stop the Saharra advancing further South????
BS. The Saharra ever expanding South is due to "climate change", not carbon or whatever, but due to deforestation by cutting down trees and forest for cooking fires. A 15 km "great wall of trees" would be inconsequential to raising moisture levels in the atmosphere and also land degradation. Tokenistic at the best.
Give us money???
The usual African solution to the problems they have self created. Ever increasing populations, primitive attitudes, cutting down trees for firewood with no thought of conservation and what is needed for the future, only always for what they need today is in their thoughts. Others can give us charity money, a never ending stream.
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“It sounded good to [African] heads of state and [the foreign aid that funded it] was a great money maker for the forestry departments of African governments. It was, ‘You give us the money, we’ll plant all the trees you need.’ So the forestry departments went out and planted millions of trees. And of course the vast majority of them soon died.”
The last sentence is the relevant one. My guess is the trees were planted and then not maintained. The same I have seen even in Europe for so called "climate change" forest efforts based on grant money frauds.
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This vision would include a mosaic of projects throughout the Sahel, regardless of whether they lined up on a map to form a “wall”.
And this of course is the only solution to desertification. The replacement of greenery, trees and forests throughout the whole Sahel. But I would expect the locals would cut everything down again for firewood, Africans do not think about the future. But if funded with aid money, they will just steal the aid money, the trees would die again.
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the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation describes the re-greening of millions of acres in the Sahel by farmers who grow (not plant) trees that regenerate naturally among their crops. Garrity and his ICRAF colleagues call such techniques “evergreen agriculture”. In fact, growing trees interspersed with crops is an old practice in Africa; it fell out of favour with the arrival of modern farming from industrialised nations, but is now making a comeback. “Inter-cropping”, as modern agronomists call it, relies on trees and their leaves to maintain a green cover on cropland throughout the year; this improves the soil’s structure, fertility and capacity to absorb water.
If subsistence plots the plots are small anyway??? And no reason not to have blocks of forest??? The reason the trees are gone is due to firewood cutting, not chopping down a la the evil West causing the problems ...
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Too good to fail
Come on ... this is Africa ...