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hero-israel · 6 months

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with the ask post talking about how anything good Israel does is also painted as somehow bad because there are secret malicious reasons: I personally saw this happen with Israel doing anything environmentally friendly, I saw people calling it "greenwashing" and saying somehow that's ALSO colonialism? I don't understand it. I guess it's that antisemitism doesn't need to make logical sense >:/

"Your trees are colonizing our indigenous desert" is with no close competition the absolute dumbest bit of Palestiner nihilism. Please see multiple links throughout here regarding this junk science.

#Israel #Palestine #greenwashing #desertification #Israeli wildlife #wildlife of Israel #environmentalism #pseudoscience #jumblr

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bumblebeeappletree · 5 months

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mapsontheweb · 2 years

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Global distribution of dryland subtypes based on the aridity index.

by Michael Cherlet et al., 2018

#maps #desertification #2018

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awehaven · 1 year

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Secano. Wild Carrot.

©Robin Fifield 2023.

Secano. Summer Dried Grasses.

©Robin Fifield 2023.

#robin fifield photography #photographers on tumblr #andalucia #flora and fauna #andalucia nature #secano #drought #desertification #climate change

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dudydoodie · 1 year

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ancientstuff · 2 years

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Survey, survey, survey, and record, record, record.

#archaeology #climate change #desertification #archaeological survey

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eaglesnick · 9 months

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“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.” ― Shirley Chisholm

The headline below tells you all you need to know about private investment and green policies designed to combat climate change.

“We won’t invest in green energy for the sake of it, says BP boss.” (The Telegraph: 01/07/23)

The boss of BP went on to say that his company would NOT be investing in green energy schemes “unless they are profitable enough”.

Having netted $27.7bn profit on the back of the conflict in Ukraine - something President Bidden described as “war profiteering” - the company will only invest in green energy if certain financial criteria are met. Who cares if the world average temperature rises a few degrees more? It will be the poor that suffer the most and they are not BP executives or shareholders!

Maybe it is more than coincidental that the head of BP is a Mr Looney, for ignoring the catastrophic consequences of not following green policies is pure insanity. There is no more doubt as to the effects of global warning and climate change. Wild fires, torrential rain and flooding are becoming commonplace. Parts of Europe are predicted to become desert, while if the Gulf Stream stops flowing the UK will become a frozen wasteland for months at a time.

So, although the UK may escape the burning hell that has engulfed many parts of Europe this year, a sizable drop in rainfall will accompany the creeping cold, reducing the UK’s arable land from 32% to a mere 7%. Food prices will soar, energy bills will become unaffordable and life for many will become unbearable.

When might this happen?

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests” (Guardian:25/07/23)

The corporate world cares not. Mr Looney and other energy companies will not invest in green energy just ”for the sake of it.” There has to be monetary reward. Who cares how many countless millions will suffer because people like Mr Looney put profit before human misery, money before morality? You and I cannot do what is necessary to stop climate change, only governments and global corporates have the power to do that. But greed still rules the day so expect the worst. I’m not a religious person but I am reminded of this quotation from Mark 8:36

“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”

#uk politics #global warming #climate change #gulf stream #greed #profiteering #green energy #Famine #price rises #desertification #soul #morality #fire #floods burning #freezing

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semelocciditbrevislux · 1 year

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Desertification is not only of the climate but of my spirit. I dreamed I had to go home, but I didn't find the way. Anyway, I didn't mind, because it was a sunny day and the scenery was beautiful. So I wandered up to a top with a round building with no entrance. From my phone the radio was sending the news that we had been invaded. I was away from my family. I had to take my sack quickly and go home. I had placed it in the wet without noticing so I was afraid that maybe my things inside were ruined, but no, everything was fine. I run towards what I hoped was the direction of home and I arrived at sandbanks that descended towards the sea. There seemed to be enough sand to swallow me. I saw a man who was going in my direction and I asked him if the path was safe, he said it was, and to follow him. We saw children playing on the bank below. He got angry because the shore had been left natural and there were no paths, benches and games, but I thought he's wrong and it's better this way, children create their own games with their imagination and whatever is there. Meanwhile we arrived at a very high escarpment and I stopped because I was scared and it didn't seem like I could go anywhere, but a boy who arrived at that moment , jokingly pushed me making me roll over the edge. I was afraid of the sand, but it made me fall without being hurt. I think my dream told me a lot of things, one of which is that I have things in my sack that are like water in the desert.I didn't believe my subconscious to be so optimistic .

#Dreams #Desertification

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notwiselybuttoowell · 2 years

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As summer fires continue to devastate huge areas of woodland in Spain, France and Portugal, and drought plagues Europe and the UK leaving tens of thousands of acres at risk of desertification, some scientists are busy collecting fog.

The EU-backed Life Nieblas project (niebla is Spanish for fog) is using fog collectors in Gran Canaria in Spain’s Canary Islands, and Portugal, to improve degraded landscape and fuel reforestation.

Fog collectors – sheets of plastic mesh erected in the path of the wind – already exist but have never been used efficiently, says Vicenç Carabassa, the project’s head scientist, who works for the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (Creaf), a public research institute at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. As wind blows fog through the mesh, water droplets collect and fall into the containers below.

Fog collection is particularly applicable in restoring the Canary Islands’ laurisilva [laurel forests], which themselves exist by collecting fog water,” says Carabassa. The water droplets from the fog condense on the trees’ shiny, waxy leaves. “The system allows saplings to flourish until they are mature enough to capture water themselves,” he adds. Laurisilva is sub-tropical rainforest populated by evergreen species, though not necessarily the familiar laurel trees found in parks and gardens.

To operate well, fog collectors need both fog and wind, conditions that exist in the Canaries and Portugal, but less so in the Mediterranean, where forest fires and desertification are a growing problem.

“We’re still trying to discover what are the optimal conditions for fog collectors to work,” says Carabassa, who adds that laurisilva restoration can help to replenish the aquifers that are under constant strain in the Canaries.

As well as the Canary Islands, where Creaf is working with the Gran Canaria local authority, the public company Gesplan, which manages the project, and several other research institutes and public organisations, the technique will be tested in maritime areas around Barcelona and the El Bruc municipality in northern Catalonia, which was ravaged by a huge fire in 2015.

#fog #fog collection #water scarcity #drought #canary islands #Portugal #laurel forests #desertification #Mediterranean #wildfires

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aquitainequeen · 2 years

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Jordan is one of the world’s most water-scarce nations, with as little as 100 m3 of water available per person every year. To put this into context, the UN defines water scarcity as anything below the threshold of 500 m3 per person - a staggering gap which is only growing wider.

Rising temperatures, reduced rainfall and limited vegetation are behind the shortage. A rapidly increasing population is also pushing the nation’s available water resources to the limit.

Efforts to restore once fertile land have so far been in vain. But in the country’s sun-scorched region of Badia, a group of female environmentalists are pursuing new ways to ward off further damage.

#jordan #badia #environmentalism #desertification #reforestation #nature #oh brave new world

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seemabhatnagar · 1 year

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Call of Nature for Mother Earth

A child can’t survive living far from his mother. Lap of the mother is the only place where we get serenity, enough for rejuvenating the exhausted mind, soul and body. Mother Earth, also feels it is just she doesn’t react doesn’t mean we become ignorant towards her pain. She also needs our help, support, love and care. We had dedicated a day for celebrating her existence and her contribution towards us. It is more of performing ritual towards her saying look we haven’t forgotten you than doing something concrete,. It seems Mother Earth has committed a mistake by taking care of us unconditionally before thinking about herself.

Mother Earth is bleeding because we had plundered and exploited the flora, fauna, natural habitat, ocean, air. By burning fossil fuel, we are contributing to pollute the air. Seeing the pissed of situation Of Mother Earth now Nature has taken the rein of teaching us the lesson. Covid 19 is the Nature’s reaction we have crossed all limits of forbearance of Mother Earth. Naturally, Earths mother, Nature won’t tolerate the simplicity of her daughter by not reacting. We are downsizing forests resultant we are having just one season for the maximum time of the year. We are subjected to scorching heat, scanty water supply, reduced fresh air, extinction of fauna and water bodies. If we don’t realize know and take curative steps, we will be subjugated to food shortage, loss of biodiversity, pollution, rising temperature, global warming and desertification.

Seema Bhatnagar

#Nature #globalwarming #desertification #extinctionoffloraandfauna #fewercrop #covid-19

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desertificationday · 3 years

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Urgent action is required to better understand and more effectively manage drought risk to reduce the devastating toll on human lives and livelihoods, and ecosystems.

Official high-level launch of the Global Assessment Report for Disaster Risk Reduction Special Report on Drought 2021 (GAR SRD2021)

Droughts have deep, widespread and underestimated impacts on societies, ecosystems, and economies. They incur costs that are borne disproportionately by the most vulnerable people. As we move towards a 2˚C warmer world, urgent action is required to better understand and more effectively manage drought risk to reduce the devastating toll on human lives and livelihoods, and ecosystems.

The GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 explores the systemic nature of drought and its impacts on achievement of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the SDGs and human and ecosystems health and wellbeing.

The GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 will be launched on 17 June 2021, the World Day for Combating Desertification and Drought in conjunction with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

#Drought control #desertification #GAR #Sendai Framework #Ecosystem Health #Ecosystem Well-being #arid lands #World Day for Combating Desertification and Drought #arid climate #17 june #UNDRR

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bumblebeeappletree · 6 months

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Planting Great Green Walls in an attempt to restore dry land has become a continental effort, led by governments and NGOs in both Africa and China. Now India has ambitious plans to do the same. But planting and sustaining millions of trees in water scare locations is a huge and complicated undertaking. To regenerate plant life at scale, what can India do differently?

#PlanetA #GreatGreenWall #desertification

Credits:

Reporter: Amelia Martyn-Hemphill

Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann & Michael Trobridge

Video Editor: Markus Mörtz

Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Interviewees:

Neelam Ahluwalia, Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement

Chetan Aggarwal, environmental analyst

Joseph Faluyi, COO and Executive Director of the Great Green Wall of Africa Foundation

George Taylor, desertification expert, University of Colorado

Latika Thukral, I am Gurgaon