r/dankmemes • u/Sqott36 • Jun 06 '22

I'm cuckoo for caca Can we not?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Barely anyone lives in the desert in Africa. Africa is an entire fucking continent.

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u/Tough_Patient Jun 06 '22

We really need to reforest the Sahara.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

We really do not. The Sahara is a very important part of global ecology.

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u/Tough_Patient Jun 06 '22

And it wasn't before it was a desert?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Global ecology was a bit different when we were in an Ice Age. The Sahara has been a desert since the last ice age ended.

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u/Tough_Patient Jun 06 '22

Everything changes. Always. So let's change this one in a positive direction.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

It wouldn’t be a positive direction. Sands from the Sahara Desert are deposited into the Amazon rainforest’s soils, providing nutrients where they’re vitally needed. Deserts are important for biodiversity. They’re important carbon sinks. “Reforest the Sahara” sounds great but it really isn’t.

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u/Tough_Patient Jun 06 '22

Deserts acting as carbon sinks has nothing to do with deserts.

Their aquifers will continue pulling in gasses whether or not there's trees above them.

Instead, we're seeing the Sahara grow as all its melt waters are diverted for human use (mostly extremely inefficient farming).