seems promising, but how tangible is it?
I've watched it develop, from first look to present.
"How tangible" is probably the wrong question. Initially, the question was... can this work at all. And, if it does, how sustainable is it. And, initially, the answer was... "that's not working"... and, "it's not working, so it's sustainable".
But, today... it is working... and it appears to be sustainable.
Why ? How ? Because... rather than trying to force nature to adapt our impositions by force... the process changed to focus on "what works" first... more than on a desired end state. And, based on what nature has on offer that works... then following a more natural progression in the successions that nature enables in making its own transformations.
It is nothing that any experienced gardener would not know. You don't tell plants how they must grow... Instead, you must enable the proper conditions for a plant to grow... selecting the right plant for the right place... a part. But, it is still not about the plant... but about your management of the effort, your control over your own inputs and choices... not direction telling plants what they must do for you... A good gardener knows the plants and their needs well enough... and meets those needs... expecting nothing from the plant other than doing what nature designed it to do.
The implication, in context here today, should be clear enough ?
But, as in all things... deciding that its feasible, doable, worth doing, etc., and seeing a tangible result emerging from the efforts made, doesn't impose any limit on or define the end of the responsibility of those who impose, by dictat, what they assume to be all and only a beneficial change ?
End desertification... so you no longer have a desert... and what is the new function of what you have now instead... and how, and to what effect, does it interact with the rest of what it interacts with ? Science always makes more questions than it answers... even while the answers found are only rarely what was hoped for, or expected... before first "getting close enough" to "what is." that you are already prepared and ready to accept the answer when it is given... rather than simply refusing to accept it... as mostly happens.
Nature will tell you "what is"... if you ask politely and observe with an open mind, being careful to observe properly, respectfully and from a proper aspect, or from all aspects required, to be able to see the answer.... without blinding yourself to it... That's mostly what science is... asking nature stupid questions and refusing to see the answer... while asking over and over... until someone finally quits being stupid.
Doing that without fatuously attempting to dictate to Nature that she must deliver the answer you want, and only that... to you, where you are, when you want it... rather than allowing the earth to continue spinning on its axis, rather than around you ? Yeah. Once you've seen it... you can't un-see it.
What was a desert... isn't any more.
i wonder if the Chinese have a similar expression as we have... about "high water pants" ?
Waterfront, is lovely, of course... until you end up on the wrong side of the water line...
One of the elements in leadership I mention often enough... that ties to the responsibilities one assumes, first for ones own self, hopefully, before gaining in responsibility ...
"Be careful what you ask for, because you might get it"...
Africa also has a desert... and, Africa's desert is also a progenitor of weather patterns... ?
Perhaps I am wrong, but it seems to me not a stretch... to assume that changing Africa's desert into a lush continent spanning oasis, as it has been before... would do little to alter the patterns in the flows in air currents we see now... while perhaps much altering the character of the air in those flows... When a low pressure spins up over Africa... how does the mass in the biology below it alter is evolution ?
So many questions...
That one, i assume we could answer... by mounting an archaeo-geological study investigating the layered records of hurricanes... dating back, not all that long ago in terms of geological history, to the time before northern Africa was a desert ? Adjust for changes in sea level with the advances and retreats of the ice... winding the clock back to the proper time periods... essential to looking in the right place ?
How powerful hurricane become... is not a constant independent of forcing factors ? I'm assuming "they" will be able to interpret the records discovered... to tell us something useful... if we ask nature politely... and seek answers where they do exist... with an open mind, ready to see what is shown, etc., |
