• marcos@lemmy.world
    171·
    3 days ago

    Hum…

    People turned entire regions into deserts by irrigating and picking crops wrongly.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      What?!

      Is that what you think happened to the Sarrah desert?

      It’s on the same 21k year rotation it’s been on for 8 million years…

      It’s been happening long before humans, and will keep happening long after humans.

      If you mean any other desert, I honestly would love an example that’s not a couple acres fucked over by modern mono culture

      • Kvoth@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 days ago

        You’ve clearly never heard of the dust bowl. This is exactly what happened

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          The dust bowl was because they tilled fields during dry seasons…

          Aka sustained droughts.

          They just kept tilling it, and the top soil literally just blew away.

          That doesn’t have anything to do with crop rotation buddy, it just doesn’t

          It’s barely tangentially related