didn't somebody here highlight a video of proper farming technique in that desert last year ? keep to the Fen Causeway
In semiarid areas you irrigate. See Mesopotamia, the "Fertile Crescent", the lower Nile and, why, yes, Al Andalus.
It's not about stupid Europeans though they may be stupidly growing wet temperate crops... A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
the Fertile Crescent is a historical fact. It's where civilisation emerged and way back then it's where farming devleoped. But then it received rainfall.
Then, when the climate changed 6,500 odd years ago everything went to shit down there cos it stopped raining. Yes, they learnt to irrigate, but didn't understand the process of salinification and so gradually the land became unusable and the soil blew away, leaving dry sand.
Also, as the land became drier, the irrigation channels got longer and longer. Satellite photos reveal how new channels were dug to bring in water from further and further away.
But it was hopeless. You can farm in arid regions so long as you stay in areas of marshland that flood. But the "fertile crescent hasn't flooded in thousands of years. That's why it's a desert.
And somebody here posted a video last year showing the proper way to farm in that region. and it ain't the way the israelis do it. keep to the Fen Causeway
Where is Palestine, then?
But yes, draining the Galilee sea would be a stupid irrigation technique in any case. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
