when it gets to the “costs in Patriot missile equivalents”
Rare interrobang sighting
It’s my favorite punctuation
That’s funny I knew a band called Interrobang once. Anyway weird rabbit hole you just sent me down, I was looking for old videos of that band and just found out one of the old chumbawamba members formed a new band called Interrobang when Chumbawamba ended, the project looks kinda dead but they released this thing 2 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vE-SS9gEuk
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
i wonder if its actually a good idea to hydrate the middle of australia, wouldnt that wreck the ecosystem or something? yea lots of land for farms but do we really need more farms or do we just need to distribute the food better
The two inventors of (Western) permaculture are Australian, as is one of their most prominent students/successors.
Their perspective would be that instead of piping in water to try to force a desert into becoming a grassland (for 50-100 years until your energy supply or supply chains deplete), you capture the water already in the desert landscape to practice arid land management, and expand the more temperate coastal areas a little bit towards the interior. You don’t completely change what the land has become over tens of thousands of years, but you use a sequence and composition of drought-tolerant plants to bring out what the arid biome has a sustainable potential to be.
It wouldn’t be, the Australian deserts are actually super interesting and biodiverse but hydrating the desert has been a colonial desire/obsession in Australia for a long time. Still fun to see a Ghanian propose ideas on how it could be done though. I mostly found the humor in his use of patriot missiles as cost representation.
Edit: what is it with colonizers and “making deserts bloom” anyway?
Edit: what is it with colonizers and “making deserts bloom” anyway?
“using the land better than those savages” justifies their brutal extermination of its indigenous population
Ayn Rand explicitly argued this to justify America’s genocide
and they can’t do the bare minimum of learning to adapt to the environment after killing everyone who already knew the land, they just want to make it a carbon copy of europe
Of course she fucking did. I wish I could go back in time and yell at her.
The American traditional dish ‘blooming onion’ is a headnod to the colonial plans to settle and irrigate the Australian red centre
Also people live there.
To be fair to desert bloomers, deserts tend to spread and are very hostile to human life and consequently human activity in said desert.
Real Desert Bloomers know your goal is actually to contain the desert’s spread and establish healthy buffer ecosystems between the desert and the not-desert.
You gotta put bowling alley bumpers up around the desert or the whole thing will slowly march away into the ocean.
Can we bloom a little desert? as a treat?
Tell ya what, we can turn a similar amount of land into a desert. I think these coordinates are a good option: 35°18’29.7"S 149°07’28.8"E
35°18’29.7"S 149°07’28.8"E
Turn the swamp into a desert and turn the desert into a swamp!
A desert might finally support intelligent life!
the centre floods on occasion, but to permanently hydrate the interior would likely irrevocably fuck up huge amounts of the country.
not to mention that Lake Eyre and all the other lakes in north SA/west QLD are salt lakes that only fill on very long cycles in specific conditions, so just pumping water into them year round is probably gonna start a Salton Sea situation sooner rather than later. but following that, the flow on effects to climate cycles from rehydrating the Simpson desert could be really fucked (because it would be super unpredictable)
gonna start a Salton Sea situation
so you’re saying it’s a dudes rock type beat
unlimited grains of salt on the inland australian sea
i more meant it in a “this will kill every fish and bird within 200km” kinda way, but fuck it we ball
on the upside, flooding this specific part of the interior will basically delete 80% of the land that cappie cattle stations own (you know, the ones that are bigger than euorpean nations), so maybe this counts as land reform
land reform
NO AGRICULTURE ALL SALT FUCK YOUR PASTURE JERKY YOUR BEEF ON THE FIELD
I AM A DESERT MAN
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