• hamid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The biggest technology needed is actually excavators so we can dig ditches everywhere to soak up rain water and refill aquifers. Also building retaining walls, terraces and swales using permaculture style water management to reforest degraded grazing lands.

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      9 months ago

      I think we need those excavators do dig our own graves, because this will probably not happen.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah this needed to have started decades ago like when they figured out the model for climate change in the 50s

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          9 months ago

          By “the 50s,” do you mean the 1850s, when Eunice Newton Foote discovered the greenhouse effect, and calculated that CO2 emissions would change the climate? And when John Tyndall published the same thing, because the scientific community ignored her because she was a woman? Yeah, we could have started 170 years ago, but people just aren’t wise enough to do anything about climate change until it’s too late.

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            9 months ago

            Yeah I am only aware of research from the 1950s and 60s but I don’t doubt it is based on a previous hundred years of research

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              9 months ago

              Either way, we’ve had plenty of warning, which is why it’s so maddening.

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                9 months ago

                Even now when climate change has visible effects, we can’t seem to get our shit together and do what we need to for our own sakes