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  • From: kowens@teleport.com (Jeff Owens)
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: African Deserts
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 10:17:47 -0700


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".

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Jeff Owens (kowens@teleport.com) Zone 7, http://www.teleport.com/~kowens
Underground house, solar energy, reduced consumption, no TV




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