Global Desertification Report - Nature Is Speaking – Edward Norton is The Soil | Conservation International (CI) Regreen Planet Earth, How To Reverse Desertification, Green Deserts, Reverse Global Warming, Reverse Climate Change - Biochar Benefits - Regreening The Deserts - Guardian King Of Trees
"If you cut down ten trees a day and fail to plant even one a year, we are headed for destruction
Yacouba Sawadogo
The high price of predatory capitalism, while focusing only on short term PROFIT, at any cost, including killing all life on the planet, is mass extinction of human life on the planet.
HUMANS ARE CUTTING OUT THE LUNGS OF THE PLANET BY CLEAR CUTTING ENTIRE FORESTS; WHAT DO THEY THINK WILL HAPPEN NEXT?
The Earth used to be much greener and much wetter, before the beginning of the Industrial and fossil fuel age.
Forests have been clear cut all over the world to make paper, furniture, toothpicks, lumber, fuel for wood fired furnaces and fire places, ships and to power factories. Few or no environmental reviews are done that serve to show what negative impacts this is having both locally, regionally and globally.
As a result, entire rainforests are being clear cut for development, housing, and more, with no regard for negative impacts such as desertification, loss of oxygen creation, and loss of atmospheric moisture.
FORESTS CONTINUE TO BE CLEAR CUT FOR PROFIT, WHILE NOT INVESTIGATING ANY ALTERNATIVES, SUCH AS GROWING HEMP FOR PAPER, INSTEAD OF CHOPPING DOWN HUGE OLD GROWTH TREES
Today, forests continue to be clear cut for profit. As the lungs of the Earth are cut out, it creates an accelerated global warming, which in turn causes more desertification. The Earth is drying out, because trees serve to increase the moisture and water levels in any region, while moderating the weather as well. As more and more trees are clear cut, the weather will also become more extreme, and more droughts will occur.
Due to this increased drying out of the atmosphere due to cutting down trees, forest fires will increase in severity, length, and size.
What do humans think will happen as they cut out the lungs of the planet and sell them for short term profit?
Source/credit; Breathingspaces.netWhat do humans think will happen as they cut out the lungs of the planet and sell them for short term profit?
AROUND 12 MILLION HECTARES OF LAND IS LOST TO DESERTIFICATION CAUSED BY HUMAN ACTIVITIES EACH AND EVERY YEAR
2 Billion people live in areas where forests no longer exist, and that land comprises around 40 percent of the total Earth land area. Rough estimates are that around 20 percent of this total surface area has degraded from farmable land, into desert. Around 12 MILLION HECTARES is lost to desertification every year.
NATURE IS SPEAKING - THE SOIL IS WARNING HUMANITY; LISTEN TO WHAT THE SOIL IS SAYING TO US
What is Natural Law?
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Dor4XvjA8Wo 1 min.
Conservation International Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder all join forces to give nature a voice.
DESERTIFICATION DEFINED
What is desertification, how is it defined?VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9RxnuBiFbg 6 min.
It can take 500 years to create a few centimeters of topsoil, but only a few years to destroy it. Desertification is not a natural process. A third of all land in the world is threatened by desertification.
TOP 10 LIST OF DESERTIFICATION EFFECTS, CAUSES AND HISTORICAL EXAMPLES
http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/
THE ENTIRE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IS KILLING THE SOIL, DUE TO EMISSIONS OF TOXIC, RADIOACTIVE HEAVY METAL POISONS THAT END UP POISONING THE FORESTS AS WELL AS THE SOIL THAT FARMERS GROW THEIR FOOD ON
Radioactive hot particles are emitted from nuclear power plants, and from nuclear accidents such as the Fukushima mega nuclear disaster in Japan. Those hot radioactive heavy metal poisons are deposited and accumulate in the soil all around the world, as well as in bodies of water, such as the oceans. Then plants, creatures, algae and trees take up these radioactive heavy metal poisons and concentrate them up the food chain.
The black spots above are hot radioactive heavy metal poison particles which showed up on a radiograph, after they were found in the soil, 60 km from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
FACTORY FARMS DESTROY THE SOIL WITH EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO
70 percent of the world's fertile soils that used to be engaged in farming food for people have been destroyed, or turned into unusable dead soil/desert. At this rate, the world will run out of soil to grow food on by 2075.
The use of chemical fertilizers, plowing, over grazing, deforestation, poorly managed irrigation systems and more, may all increase salinity and make soil unable to grow anything. Climate change worsens these issues.
12 million hectares of land are lost each year, in all latitudes and 110 countries, due to desertification. We cannot afford to lose even one acre, much less 12 million hectares, with a growing global population and increased losses due to climate changes that are happening.
Soil loss and soil exhaustion reduces the capacity of farms to produce enough food to support the worlds' population.
Global warming is a negative tipping point that all by itself is causing and accelerating desertification. As the temperature increases, large areas suffer from more extreme and longer droughts, destructive flooding, food insecurity, groundwater levels dropping in the soil, rainfall becoming more and more rare. When rain does fall, it comes down in catastrophic amounts, which cause damage and destruction of infrastructure, farms, homes, roads, bridges and more.
The US fertilizer industry is generating 170 BILLION dollars a year. This fertilizer is made from byproducts produced by the weapons industry, and the pesticides used on factory farms come from the byproducts of the poison gas bioweapons industry. The problem is that these products poison and kill everything in the soil, turning it into a sterile dust, which supports no life, and which blows away in the form of dust. The artificial, toxic, and deadly fertilizers and pesticides are killing all life on the planet, but they are very PROFITABLE.
WHAT HAPPENS IF WE START LISTENING TO NATURE AND WORK IN HARMONY WITH HER LAWS, INSTEAD OF VIOLATING THEM, AND WAGING A WAR AGAINST NATURE, WHICH CAN NEVER BE WON?
Needless to say, anything that threatens militarism, predatory capitalism and/or racism will get huge push back, because hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars of taxpayer money are at stake.. But what if there is a paradigm shifting technology that works in harmony with Nature, Natural Laws and which reverses global warming?
"In the US, soil is being lost at a rate of 10 times faster than it is being replenished"
One tablespoon of healthy organic soil contains in excess of 2 billion organisms.
The movie explains various ways of taking excess CO2 out of the atmosphere and storing it in the soil. These methods include using regenerative agriculture, which utilizes things such as;
Cover cropping
No till agriculture
Composting
Make and use biochar/algae using carbon rich waste products that normally go to landfill.
It is critical to start thinking about how to listen to Nature, work in harmony with her laws, and feed the SOIL, and not just force growth in plants with artificial lab created toxic chemicals, laced with poisonous heavy metals.
This movie shows how to disrupt the food, energy and chemical monopolies.
BIOCHAR; THE OLDEST THING YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THAT DISRUPTS THE FOOD AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Biochar: The Oldest New Thing You’ve Never Heard Of | Wae Nelson | TEDxOrlando – YouTube
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/p0YNFn9Dloc 9 min
TEDx Talks Wae Nelson was employed as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace and defense industries for many years, working both as a designer and as a manager in manufacturing. He then went on to publish a magazine beloved by local gardeners, Florida Gardening, and to pursue his passion for biochar — a diy, scalable technique to both improve horticultural yields and sequester carbon simultaneously.
Wae Nelson was employed as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace and defense industries for many years, working both as a designer and as a manager in manufacturing. He then went on to publish a magazine beloved by local gardeners, Florida Gardening, and to pursue his passion for biochar — a diy, scalable technique to both improve horticultural yields and sequester carbon simultaneously.
FACTORY FARMS USING SYNTHETIC FERTILIZERS KILL THE SOIL, AND ARE CREATING DESERTS PLUS TOXIC WASTE ZONES, AS WELL AS DEAD ZONES IN THE WORLD'S OCEANS, AND TOXIC DRINKING WATER
In a handful of virgin humus filled soil, there are more organisms, than all of the living human beings on the planet. Many of these organisms have never been studied, and their functions, value or meaning are not well defined. Yet, millions of years of Earth's evolution and the living web of life are intimately connected to both the soil and to these living organisms, which are part of and embedded inside of Natural Laws.
If Nature were to hand out a report card to humans that are promoting and supporting huge factory farms, using high tech GMO crops that rely on toxic poisonous methods to raise that food, here is the report card that Nature would provide..
Humans are now intent on killing all organisms and living things such as worms or bugs that live in the soil, which also serve to enrich the soil. This war on Nature consists of toxic fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and other toxic or radioactive heavy metal poisons.
Factory farms that are waging a war on Nature and on human health are the same huge corporate farms that get the lions share of all bailouts given to farmers.
CLEAR CUTTING AND RESULTING DEFORESTATION IS A DIRECT CAUSE OF DESERTIFICATION
Deforestation is one of the primary causes of desertification. Loss of trees affects local climate in a negative way. Trees increase humidity and trap moisture, plus hold soil and create more soil through humus building. The loss of trees causes the opposite to happen.
Every time a forest is clear cut, huge amounts of top soil are washed away by rains hitting the exposed naked soil, which has no more protective leaves, needles and roots holding it together and protecting it. As each layer of soil is washed away with rains, it clogs streams and rivers with silt, and also makes dams fill up with dirt thus rendering them useless.
Each clear cutting takes out more nutrients from the soil, without putting anything back, thus creating a bankrupt soil void of any meaningful nutrients. The combination of clear cutting, soil washing away and nutrient loss tends to create deserts in the longer term.
"Clear cutting also causes a huge increase in landslides, with large destructive effects downhill. "We took an airplane yesterday, flying north west of Roseburg. During our short 1.5 hour flight, we saw literally hundreds of landslides coming from clearcuts and their roads. We saw about 4 natural landslides in forested areas. We couldn't see every natural slide from the plane - but I know for sure, there were not hundreds. There were many, many more landslides from clearcuts. The slopes were just dripping with streaks of mud and slides. The draws and valleys were ripped wide open, and oozing with the displaced soil and rocks.
http://www.umpqua-watersheds.org/archive/local/landslides/slides.html
As the forests disappear, the climate also changes, as forests hold in moisture, affect the local weather by lessening the impact of droughts or huge rain storms, plus much more.
The theory about clear cutting being ok is void of all logic, and planting more trees on a one to one basis for every tree cut down is a recipe for disaster globally.
RESEARCH SAYS REGION’S CROPS WILL FEEL IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING
JULY 23, 2017 A GREEN ROAD DAILY NEWS
LAFAYETTE, Ga. — Sonny Scoggins never envisioned catfish among his crops.
But last month, there they were, 3 feet long, about 7 pounds, wiggling and flopping among budding soybean plants. A heavy storm had finally ceased, and Scoggins and his brother wanted to inspect their crops. They found the pond overflowing, the water spilling through the rows of stalks, forming small, shin-high streams.
“It’s just, you know — it’s just something to see,” said Scoggins, 83.
Temperatures rose. The water evaporated. The catfish retreated. And then another heavy storm hit, and the water spilled out, and the whole thing happened again.
This time last year, Scoggins was praying for rain. With rolling hills and no clear access to a river, the farm doesn’t have an irrigation system. And the hot, dry weather oppressed his summer crop, allowing the family to harvest only 6,000 bushels of soybeans. Typically, they grow 40,000 bushels, selling them to Cargill Corp. for about $10 each. He said it costs about $120 an acre to plant his 650 or so acres.
via Research says region’s crops will feel impact of global warming | Times Free Press
Anything not sustainable and in harmony with Nature is TERMINAL
Every time a forest is clear cut, huge amounts of top soil are washed away by rains hitting the exposed naked soil, which has no more protective leaves, needles and roots holding it together and protecting it. As each layer of soil is washed away with rains, it clogs streams and rivers with silt, and also makes dams fill up with dirt thus rendering them useless.
Each clear cutting takes out more nutrients from the soil, without putting anything back, thus creating a bankrupt soil void of any meaningful nutrients. The combination of clear cutting, soil washing away and nutrient loss tends to create deserts in the longer term.
"Clear cutting also causes a huge increase in landslides, with large destructive effects downhill. "We took an airplane yesterday, flying north west of Roseburg. During our short 1.5 hour flight, we saw literally hundreds of landslides coming from clearcuts and their roads. We saw about 4 natural landslides in forested areas. We couldn't see every natural slide from the plane - but I know for sure, there were not hundreds. There were many, many more landslides from clearcuts. The slopes were just dripping with streaks of mud and slides. The draws and valleys were ripped wide open, and oozing with the displaced soil and rocks.
http://www.umpqua-watersheds.org/archive/local/landslides/slides.html
As the forests disappear, the climate also changes, as forests hold in moisture, affect the local weather by lessening the impact of droughts or huge rain storms, plus much more.
The theory about clear cutting being ok is void of all logic, and planting more trees on a one to one basis for every tree cut down is a recipe for disaster globally.
A DEEPER LOOK AT CUTTING OUT THE LUNGS OF THE PLANET VIA DEFORESTATION, CLEAR CUTTING, WHICH ENDS UP DESTROYING NATURAL HABITAT, CREATING GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGES
Wikipedia; "Clearcutting as synonymous with deforestation, destroying natural habitats[2] and contributing to climate change.[3]
Clearcutting is the most common and economically profitable method of logging. However, clearcutting also imposes other externalities in the form of detrimental side effects such as loss of topsoil; the value of these costs is intensely debated by economic, environmental, and other interests. Aside from the purpose of harvesting wood, clearcutting is also used to create land for farming.[4] The "insatiable human demand for wood and arable land" through clearcutting and other activities has led to the loss of over half of the world's rainforests.[5]
While deforestation of both temperate and tropical rainforests through clearcutting has received considerable media attention in recent years, the other large forests of the world, such as thetaiga, also known as boreal forests, are also under threat of rapid development. The same reasons for preserving the world’s tropical rainforests also apply to the taiga, as do the reasons for destroying them. In Russia, as in North America and Scandinavia, creating protected areas and granting long-term leases to tend and regenerate trees—thus maximizing future harvests—are ways of limiting the harmful effects of clearcutting.[6] Long-term studies of clearcut forests, such as studies of the Pasoh Rainforest in Malaysia, are also important in providing insights into the preservation of forest resources worldwide.[7]
Types
Many variations of clearcutting exist; the most common professional practices are:[8]
Standard (uniform) clearcut – removal of every stem (whether commercially viable or not), so no canopy remains.
Patch clearcut – removal of all the stems in a limited, predetermined area (patch).
Strip clearcut – removal of all the stems in a row (strip), usually placed perpendicular to the prevailing winds in order to minimize the possibility of windthrow.[9]
Clearcutting-with-reserves – removal of the majority of standing stems save a few reserved for other purposes (for example as snags for wildlife habitat), (often confused with the seed tree method).
Slash-and-burn – the permanent conversion of tropical and subtropicals forests for agricultural purposes. This is most prevalent in tropical and subtropical forests in overpopulated regions in developing and least developed countries.
Slash-and-burn entails the removal of all stems in a particular area. This can be a form of deforestation, when the land is converted to other uses. However, some indigenous forest peoples, for example the 19th century Forest Finns rotate over the land and it does return to forest and this would be sustainable.
Slash and burn techniques are typically used by civilians in search of land for living and agricultural purposes. The forest is first clear cut, and the remaining material is burned. One of the driving forces behind this process is a result of overpopulation and subsequent sprawl. These methods also occur as a result of commercial farming. The lumber is sold for profit, and the land, cleared of all remaining brush and suitable for agricultural development, is sold to farmers.[4]
Selection cutting – which can be done for timber harvesting or for ecological reasons. when so done it is often called ecoforestry.
Clearcutting contrasts with selective cutting, such as high grading, in which only commercially valuable trees are harvested, leaving all others. This practice can reduce the genetic viability of the forest over time, resulting in poorer or less vigorous offspring in the stand. Clearcutting also differs from a coppicing system, by allowing revegetation by seedlings. Destructive forms of forest management are commonly referred to as 'clearcutting'.
Clearcutting regeneration, harvesting or system
Clearcutting in Southern Finland
Clearcutting near Eugene, Oregon
Effects on the environment
Environmental groups criticize clear-cutting as destructive to water, soil, wildlife, and atmosphere, and recommend the use of sustainable alternatives.[11]Clear-cutting has a very big impact on the water cycle. Trees hold water and topsoil. Clear-cutting in forests removes the trees which would otherwise have been transpiring large volumes of water and also physically damages the grasses, mosses, lichens, and ferns populating the understorey. All this bio-mass normally retains water during rainfall. Removal or damage of thebiota reduces the local capacity to retain water, which can exacerbate flooding and lead to increased leaching of nutrients from the soil. The maximum nutrient loss occurs around year two, and returns to pre-clearcutting levels by year four.[12]
Clear-cutting also prevents trees from shading riverbanks, which raises the temperature of riverbanks and rivers, contributing to the extinction of some fish and amphibian species.[where?] Because the trees no longer hold down the soil, riverbanks increasingly erode as sediment into the water, creating excess nutrients which exacerbate the changes in the river and create problems miles away, in the sea.[11] All of the extra sediment and nutrients that leach into the streams cause the acidity of the stream to increase, which can kill marine life if the increase is great enough.[12] The nutrient content of the soil was found to return to five percent of pre-clearcutting levels after 64 years, which demonstrates how clearcutting affects the environment for many years.[13]
Clearcutting can destroy an area's ecological integrity in a number of ways, including: the destruction of buffer zones which reduce the severity of flooding by absorbing and holding water; the immediate removal of forest canopy, which destroys the habitat for many rainforest-dependent insects and bacteria; the removal of forest carbon sinks, leading to global warmingthrough the increased human-induced and natural carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere; the elimination of fish and wildlife species due to soil erosion and habitat loss; the removal of underground worms, fungi and bacteria that condition soil and protect plants growing in it from disease; the loss of small-scale economic opportunities, such as fruit-picking, sap extraction, and rubber tapping; and the destruction of aesthetic values and recreational opportunities.[14]
Negative impacts
Clearcutting can have major negative impacts, both for humans and local flora and fauna.[15] A study from the University of Oregon found that in certain zones, areas that were clear cut had nearly three times the amount of erosion due to slides. When the roads required by the clearcutting were factored in, the increase in slide activity appeared to be about 5 times greater compared to nearby forested areas.
The roads built for clearcutting interrupt normal surface drainage because the roads are not as permeable as the normal ground cover. The roads also change subsurface water movement due to the redistribution of soil and rock.[16] Clearcutting may lead to increased stream flow during storms, loss of habitat and species diversity, opportunities for invasive and weedy species, and negative impacts on scenery,[17] as well as a decrease in property values; diminished recreation, hunting, and fishing opportunities.[18]
Clearcutting decreases the occurrence of natural disturbances like forest fires and natural uprooting. Over time, this can deplete the local seed bank.[19] An example of what clearcutting did in Ontario before 1900 can be found in Edmund Zavitz.
In temperate and boreal climates, clearcutting can have an effect on the depth of snow, which is usually greater in a clearcut area than in the forest, due to a lack of interception and evapotranspiration. This results in less soil frost, which in combination with higher levels of direct sunlight results in snowmelt occurring earlier in the spring and earlier peak runoff.[20]
The world's rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. Between June 2000 and June 2008 more than 150 000 square kilometers of rain forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon.
Huge areas of forest have already been lost. For example, only eight to fourteen percent of the Atlantic Forest in South America now remains.[21][22] While deforestation rates have slowed since 2004, forest loss is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.[23] Farmers slash and burn large parcels of forest every year to create grazing and crop lands, but the forest's nutrient-poor soil often renders the land ill-suited for agriculture, and within a year or two, the farmers move on.[24]
Effects on wildlife
Clearcutting's main destruction is towards habitats, where it makes the habitats more vulnerable in the future to damage by insects, diseases, acid rain, and wind. Removal of all trees from an area destroys the physical habitats of many species in wildlife. Also clearcutting can contribute to problems for ecosystems that depend on forests, like the streams and rivers which run through them.[28]
In Canada, the black-tailed deer population is at further risk after clearcutting. The deer are a food source for wolves and cougars, as well as First Nations and other hunters. While deer may not be at risk in cities and rural countryside, where they can be seen running through neighbourhoods and feeding on farms, in higher altitude areas they require forest shelter.[29]
See also
Main article: Outline of forestry
List of tree species by shade tolerance – shade intolerant and some intermediate species are primarily regenerated with clearcuts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearcutting
GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGES WILL MEAN MORE DESERTIFICATION, CROP LOSSES, SMALLER YIELDS AND MORE DROUGHTS, ALONG WITH MORE DELUGE TYPE RAINFALL EVENTS
Here is an example of what is coming in the future as the weather becomes more and more unstable, wilder and more extreme. This story is just the tip of the iceberg, because the negative changes are going to accelerate faster and faster, especially after the Arctic Sea ice melts out completely first in the summer and then the winter.
RESEARCH SAYS REGION’S CROPS WILL FEEL IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING
JULY 23, 2017 A GREEN ROAD DAILY NEWS
LAFAYETTE, Ga. — Sonny Scoggins never envisioned catfish among his crops.
But last month, there they were, 3 feet long, about 7 pounds, wiggling and flopping among budding soybean plants. A heavy storm had finally ceased, and Scoggins and his brother wanted to inspect their crops. They found the pond overflowing, the water spilling through the rows of stalks, forming small, shin-high streams.
“It’s just, you know — it’s just something to see,” said Scoggins, 83.
Temperatures rose. The water evaporated. The catfish retreated. And then another heavy storm hit, and the water spilled out, and the whole thing happened again.
This time last year, Scoggins was praying for rain. With rolling hills and no clear access to a river, the farm doesn’t have an irrigation system. And the hot, dry weather oppressed his summer crop, allowing the family to harvest only 6,000 bushels of soybeans. Typically, they grow 40,000 bushels, selling them to Cargill Corp. for about $10 each. He said it costs about $120 an acre to plant his 650 or so acres.
via Research says region’s crops will feel impact of global warming | Times Free Press
Going from selling 40,000 bushels of soybeans to 6,000 will be considered 'normal' in the future. But in reality, farmers can only handle losses like this for a couple of years at best, and then they go bankrupt. As more and more farmers go bankrupt and farmers quit raising food because it becomes a money losing business, huge increases in prices will also be 'normal'. But the increases in prices will not increase profits due to the losses from severe weather, including droughts and deluge type rainstorms.
Eventually the entire fossil fuel based toxic GMO factory farm system will break down, because it is not sustainable. Right now, our society is only surviving due to huge dams, fossil fuels and the ability to pump water from underground aquifers. But those underground aquifers are being rapidly drawn down and eventually, those too will go dry or become too expensive to maintain/operate. Dams are not sustainable. With unpredictable weather, more of them will fail due to over topping deluge rainfall events, or they will empty out due to long extended droughts.
Anything not sustainable is TERMINAL.
JULY 22, 2017 A GREEN ROAD DAILY NEWS
Heat waves generated by global warming could ground nearly a third of flights during the hottest days, forcing carriers to jettison cargo in order to take off, according to a study in this month’s Climatic Change. Cargo stalwarts, such as the 777-300, are expected to experience the greatest impact, due to their size. High-volume freight hubs located in hot climates, like Dubai, could see delays for up to 30 percent of the airport’s departures.
Extreme heat last month in Phoenix, in the dry southwest region of the United States, led to the cancellation of nearly 50 flights over two days in June, providing an early indicator of global warming’s impact on the aviation industry. As temperatures approached 120°F, American Airlines was forced to ground dozens of planes at Sky Harbor International Airport.
Now, researchers associated with the Northeast Climate Science Center and the Logistics Management Institute and are saying that this could be a common occurrence in a matter of decades.
via Rising global temperatures could snarl cargo operations | Air Cargo World
AIR CARGO AND AIR PASSENGER OPERATIONS WILL BECOME MORE CHAOTIC AS TEMPERATURES INCREASE FASTER AND FASTER
RISING GLOBAL TEMPERATURES COULD SNARL CARGO OPERATIONSJULY 22, 2017 A GREEN ROAD DAILY NEWS
Heat waves generated by global warming could ground nearly a third of flights during the hottest days, forcing carriers to jettison cargo in order to take off, according to a study in this month’s Climatic Change. Cargo stalwarts, such as the 777-300, are expected to experience the greatest impact, due to their size. High-volume freight hubs located in hot climates, like Dubai, could see delays for up to 30 percent of the airport’s departures.
Extreme heat last month in Phoenix, in the dry southwest region of the United States, led to the cancellation of nearly 50 flights over two days in June, providing an early indicator of global warming’s impact on the aviation industry. As temperatures approached 120°F, American Airlines was forced to ground dozens of planes at Sky Harbor International Airport.
Now, researchers associated with the Northeast Climate Science Center and the Logistics Management Institute and are saying that this could be a common occurrence in a matter of decades.
via Rising global temperatures could snarl cargo operations | Air Cargo World
The negative tipping points of hotter weather, droughts, huge deluge rain storms, more intense higher speed wind storms, and more will all intersect and have a huge and growing impact on national budgets, eating up money that would normally be there for normal maintenance or new projects.
Fighting Nature is a lose lose proposition.
Anything not sustainable and in harmony with Nature is TERMINAL
DESERT DWELLERS ARE FINDING WATER IS GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO FIND, DUE TO GLOBAL 'DRYING OUT' OF SOILS AND AQUIFERS, RESULTING FROM DESERTIFICATION, CLEAR CUTTING ENTIRE FORESTS, GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Nomads living on the edge of the Sahara desert in Africa are having a harder and harder time finding water. It used to be easy to find water, now it is very hard. They have to dig 12 wells to find water now, where it used to take only one.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVpZARfXIf0 1 min
DESERTIFICATION IN PORTUGAL CAUSED BY LACK OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR SMALL ORGANIC FARMERS
In Portugal as well as many other countries, desertification can be caused by lack of support for small, sustainable organic farmers who care about every square foot of their land. Young people are moving to the larger city to find jobs and make a living.
As people move to the city, the village small farm foundation that supports the large cities with fresh, organic and wholesome healthy food collapses. Lack of support from the large city dwellers and government in turn causes the collapse of the small organic farming community, made up of small, rural villages.
Cities become larger and more crowded, while small villages and small organic farmers are chocked to death, plus dying on the vine, due to a lack of financial, human energy support and jobs. Small farmers are often displaced or forced out of business by real estate developers building more homes or commercial properties.
Due to climate change caused by large, unsustainable cities and their reliance on huge unsustainable agribusiness factory farms, the process of global warming accelerates the negative tipping points, because huge agribusiness is much less able to survive the larger and larger climatic changes that are happening, and less sustainable in their operations, when compared to small organic farmers living in a supportive village or community based setting, where people know exactly where their food comes from, and the quality of it.
Farms that rely on irrigation eventually have to deal with salinity increase in the soil. Salts build up to the point where the farm soil cannot grow any food. This is a global problem.SALT BUILDUP IN SOILS
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWs2hUsuKtc 23 min.
TAMIN SALINITY VIDEO
Tamin salinity in soil problem explainedVIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owEHiUCTq7w 3 min.
WHAT YOU CAN DO; TURN SAND INTO FERTILE SOIL IN 7 HOURS
From sand to soil in 7 hours | Ole Morten Olesen | TEDxArendal
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/stc5MUIloP0
1 kilo of nanoclay can turn 1 square meter of sandy worthless desert into fertile farm soil.
Any desert can now be used as farmland.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/bmQGR7PC1fA 22 min.
WHAT YOU CAN DO; GREENING THE DESERT AND REVERSING THE DESERTIFICATION PROCESS
How to Green the Desert and Reverse Climate Change (March 2013 - TED talks)VIDEO: https://youtu.be/bmQGR7PC1fA 22 min.
WHAT YOU CAN DO; TURNING DESERT INTO GREEN FOREST IN CHINA
Couple turns desert into oasisVIDEO: https://youtu.be/V0ZaJlLE1vY 2 min.
WHAT YOU CAN DO; A SINGLE MAN MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE AND PLANTED A FOREST IN CHINA
A man has planted over 200 hectares of trees in a north China desert over the past 30 years to halt encroaching sand from a nearby desert.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/6uNWM9EBhfg
Deserts can be made into forests, but only by setting a goal and then moving towards it, one tree at a time.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/IDgDWbQtlKI 47 min.WHAT YOU CAN DO; WATCH DOCUMENTARY MOVIE ABOUT REGREENING THE DESERT
Regreening the desert - (VPRO documentary - 2011)WHAT YOU CAN DO; REVERSING DESERTIFICATION EXAMPLE IN ISRAELI DESERT
Planting trees and pushing back the desertVIDEO: https://youtu.be/jDjW8WvFcGQ 6 min.
How do you push back centuries of desertification? Through planting trees in the desert, of course! Learn how KKL-JNF helps trees survive in the desert. Find out more about 'Green Sunday', a JNF Australia initiative that encourages Jewish Australian youth to get involved in planting a green belt around Beer Sheva.
http://www.kkl.org.il/eng/about-kkl-j...
10 top ways Israel fights desertification | ISRAEL21c
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10 top ways Israel fights desertification | ISRAEL21c
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WHAT YOU CAN DO; COPY HOW A SINGLE MAN GREW A FOREST IN A BARREN AFRICAN DESERT
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Yacouba Sawadogo is an exceptional man -- he single-handedly managed to solve a crisis that even scientists and development organizations could not. The simple old farmer's re-forestation and soil conservation techniques are so effective they've helped turn the tide in the fight against the desertification of the harsh lands in northern Burkina Faso.
Over-farming, over-grazing and over population have, over the years, resulted in heavy soil erosion and drying in this landlocked West African nation. Although national and international researchers tried to fix the grave situation, it really didn't really make much of a difference. Until Yacouba decided to take matters into his own hands in 1980.
Yacouba's methods were so odd that his fellow farmers ridiculed him. But when his techniques successfully regenerated the forest, they were forced to sit up and take notice. Yacouba revived an ancient African farming practice called 'zai', which led to forest growth and increased soil quality.
Zai is a very simple and low-cost farming technique. Using a shovel or an axe, small holes are dug into the hard ground and filled with compost. Seeds of trees, millet or sorghum are planted in the compost. The holes catch water during the rainy season, so they are able to retain moisture and nutrients during the dry season.
According to the rules of Zai, Yacouba would prepare the lands in the dry season -- exactly the opposite of the local practice. Other farmers and land chiefs laughed at him, but soon realized that he is a genius. In just 20 years, he converted a completely barren area into a thriving 30-acre forest with over 60 species of trees.
According to Chris Reji, a natural resources management specialist with the Center for International Cooperation, "Tens of thousands of hectares of land that was completely unproductive has been made productive again thanks to the techniques of Yacouba."
Yacouba has chosen not to keep his secrets to himself. Instead, he hosts a workshop at his farm, teaching visitors and bringing people together in a spirit of friendship. "I want the training program to be the starting point for many fruitful exchanges across the region," he said. Farmers from neighboring villages visit him for advice and good quality seeds. "If you stay in your own little corner, all your knowledge is of no use to humanity."
In 2010, award-winning filmmaker Mark Dodd created a documentary based on Yacouba's experiences, called 'The Man Who Stopped the Desert'. It tells the story of how a single man's efforts saved thousands of farmers across Africa's Sahel region -- one of the worst hit by desertification in the world. The film helps defy the notion that Africa needs outside help to solve its problems. "We must stop teaching and telling, and instead start learning and listening to what the farmers have to say," said Reji.
The film has helped raise awareness about Yacouba's work and also resulted in more donations. With the support of Oxfam America, he is now promoting the use of stone bunds that slow runoff, so water from the pits trickle into the soil. This has proven to be a very successful technique.
"What Yacouba has done can also be done by many other farmers across the Sahel. The big challenge is that in the next 5 to 10 years, we will have to try to motivate millions of farmers to invest in trees because it will help them to improve their food security, and at the same time it will also help them adapt to climate change," said Reji.
But making this happen isn't as easy as it sounds. In spite of the success of the documentary film, Yacouba is facing problems from several quarters. A recent expansion project has taken up a considerable portion of the forest he spent years growing. Homes are already being built on his land, with meagre compensations.
Despite these setbacks, Yacouba hasn't lost hope. He is currently trying to raise $20,000 to purchase his forest back. He knows that his work is important -- he has doubled his cultivation efforts, expanding into nearby barren lands.
Yacouba's understanding of the future of the environment and conservation is profound. "If you cut down ten trees a day and fail to plant even one a year, we are headed for destruction," he said.
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WHAT YOU CAN DO; GREEN THE WORLD'S DESERTS AND REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE
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Lyrics to King of Trees:
He was the King of trees
Keeper of the leaves
A deep green god of young
Love stained memory
We used to meet by him
Far from the hustling town
I loved you
Now they've come to cut you down
..Down
He was the guardian of days
We held the same
Beneath the shade he gave
Shelter from the rain
Oh Lord how its empty now
With nothing save the breeze
Now they've come to burn the leaves
don't burn the leaves
And if my mind breaks up
In all so many ways
I know the meaning of
The words I love you
And if my body falls inside
An early grave
The forest and the evergreens
Are coming to take me back
So slowly as I roll
Down the track
The forest and the evergreens
Are coming to take me back
The forest and the evergreens
Are coming to take me back
Please take me back
He was the King of trees
Keeper of the glades
The way he enchanted my life
Makes me so amazed
We used to meet by him
Many years ago
I love you
Now they've come to lay the road
don't lay the road
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