[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: African Deserts
- To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: African Deserts
- From: kowens@teleport.com (Jeff Owens)
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 10:17:47 -0700
- In-reply-to: <LYR75838-11374-1999.07.09-11.56.42--kowens#teleport.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
John Schinnerer wrote:
>>So who's mis-managing, and why?
A recent report on climate modeling suggested that African
Desert expansion is due to many external factors and local
activity is a very small part of the problem. Mostly it is
due to climate change and a global view might be most useful.
If this is true then one thing we can do is improve our local
ecology and change our agricultural systems/industrial
activities.
I don't think this suggests we should ignore immediate problems
in Africa, just that our local activities may be more connected
to Africa than we expect. The problem could be "us".
----------
Jeff Owens (kowens@teleport.com) Zone 7, http://www.teleport.com/~kowens
Underground house, solar energy, reduced consumption, no TV