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In response to "A boot on your neck is 'downward pressure' on an unwanted trend, too. " by Agent.Vermin

Desalination is highly pollutant and impactful on marine life. And you do realize it takes more than water to "grow plants in the desert", right? -- nm

Posted by Guy (aka lostatlimbo) Dec 8 '09, 11:16

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"pollutant and impactful" - hence the need to improve the tech. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:18 19
- unless we get a significant technological breaktrugh Las Vegas IS lost - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:25
- Why this specifically instead of just, say, better solar panels and other renewable energy sources? You're adding a pretty high degree of difficulty - Reagen Dec 8, 11:22 3
  - [shrug] Solar has funding. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:30
  - he may as well aim for farming the moon -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:26
  - if they were good at adapting they wouldn't be endangered. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:24
- desert (usually) makes pretty shit farmland even if you irrigate the pants off it. - mafic Dec 8, 11:22 7
  - Related: I would give the climate crisis hysterics more credit if they occasionally listed some of the benefits of warming. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:25 6
    - btw, it is not impossible to grow food in places like that. Iceland is littered with greenhouses. - Guy Dec 8, 11:32
    - I think climate change in either direction will have benefits for some. - mafic Dec 8, 11:31
    - because the "benefits" are overshadowed by the global impact - Guy Dec 8, 11:30
    - spoils - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:28
    - in general, almost none of it. it'll just turn into marsh. - Reagen Dec 8, 11:28 1
      - most of it already is marsh. in the summer, anyway. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:32
- and the idea of growing plants in the desert is a bit like robbing peter to pay paul - znufrii Dec 8, 11:19 5
  - not to mention that the soil is usually lacking in nutrients - Guy Dec 8, 11:22
  - for the most part, desertification is an example of ecosystem destruction. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:21 3
    - that's not entirely true. it may have been the 'destruction' of an ecosystem as it is beneficial to humans - Guy Dec 8, 11:24 1
      - thats also not true - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:29
    - and you might actually get as much effect by sending free fencewire to africa -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:22
not to mention the CO2 we need to worry about is not the stuff on the surface that would be "sucked up" by increased vegetation -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:17

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