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In response to ""pollutant and impactful" - hence the need to improve the tech. " by Agent.Vermin

desert (usually) makes pretty shit farmland even if you irrigate the pants off it.

Posted by mafic Dec 8 '09, 11:22

there are exceptions (the okanagan in BC), but a lot of those are already irrigated. a lot of the wheatbelt in western australia is irrigated desert, and it suck-diddly-ucks for farming. they have to irrigate and fertilize the hell out of everything, and it's still less than marginal.

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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

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desert (usually) makes pretty shit farmland even if you irrigate the pants off it.

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