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What an awe inspiring, stunning and beautiful story of people taming even the harshest nature has to offer ,and turning it to their advantage, and improving their lives and the environment dramatically in the process. All without meddling, destructive and greedy government/corporate machinations as well.

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Jan 8Edited

Western built combines rotting in failed crop fields that never were intended to grow occidental hybridized wheat in a foreign environment. I don't recall where I first heard the phrase appropriate technology, maybe it was John Perkins but it fits ever so well with the revitalization project in The Sahara.

Gaddafi was supporting organic farming in Libya that had a large lake as a result of a deliberate development program.

Chris Bird's book Secrets of the Soil describes how one man made large tracts of Australian desert arable again via biodynamic growth practices.

Tasmanian native Malcolm Bendall has a revolutionary technology that could change the world, if ever allowed by the PTB, including changing the climate and bringing abundant water.

Then again, the present weather "engineers" could probably do something similar albeit with a different method.

There is no shortage of knowhow. Malthusian scarcity is fiction. And it's wonderful to see indigenous populations take control of their own destiny.

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