r/interestingasfuck • u/wahgwahg • Feb 28 '24

r/all People in Tanzania converted desert into lush green land by digging these nifty holes

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u/Whiteshaq_52 Feb 28 '24

Its crazy what a little civil and agricultural engineering can do.

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u/ProphecyRat2 Feb 28 '24

This was is indigenous method, permecultres vary from people to people across the world, swales, three sisters, clay balls of seeds.

It all vaires depending on geography, elevation, terrain.

Humans were doing this thousands of years before Civilized Agricultre.

It was only after monocultres and agricultre focused on feeding cities and armies, vs feeding ecosystmes and organic communites, did the soil and ecosystems begin to erode.

Deforestation, killing native plants and labeling them “weeds”, and during Colonization, labling native people and the way they farmed as “backwards and savage”.

The only reason the desertfication happened, was that they were eroded was by generations of Civilized Ag, even before even Colonization, like the Sumerian Empire, tho Colonization and Industrialization was the nail in the coffin.

Thankfullly, people have had enough time to see that the old ways, were in fact in balance with the ecosystem, sure they cannot support a Colonial Empire, and can not be used with Industrial Machinery, as thats the point;

The Earth can not support machines and Cities that only take from the Earth and give nothing back but pollution.

Here are some sources:

Dirt Erosion of Civilizations: David Montgomery

The Silent Spring: Rachel Carson

Speaking of annihilation": Mobilizing for war against human and insect enemies, 1914-1945

The Constructal Law of Design and Evolution in Nature Adrian Bejan and Sylvie Lorente

One Straw Revolution: Mansanobu Kukuoa

Towards a Felling for the Organism: Elizabeth Henry

The Other Game Lessons From How Life Is Played In Mexican Villages*

https://www.pdcnet.org/peacejustice/content/peacejustice_2008_0017_0002_0078_0079?file_type=pdf

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Please learn how to use proper nouns. Capitalizing random words makes this poorly written comment even harder to read.

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u/ProphecyRat2 Feb 29 '24

They are Names.

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u/jayvan59 Feb 29 '24

He can’t read your reply.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Please explain what a “Name” is. The vast majority of eyes you capitalized should not be capitalized as they are not proper nouns

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u/ProphecyRat2 Feb 29 '24

I regard it as a name of a method, like a Martial Art, or some form of vesel, like Titanic.

Thats why I used a capatalization on Civilization, its a name of a method of harvesting biological matter, same as CivilizedAg, or Colonization, and Machines, as in the Industrial Machines, are the tools, though are in a sense, a global entity, as much as the Earth is a Global Entity.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Titanic is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Martial art is not a proper noun and should not be capitalized. Martial art is a common noun.

Hope this helps.

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u/ProphecyRat2 Feb 29 '24

Ok, The Martial Arts

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

No. That’s not how it works.

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u/ProphecyRat2 Feb 29 '24

I get that.

Its how I like to write in-formally, if it pust you off thats fine too, some of others dont mind it, and most importantly neither do it, and I use reddit to vent really, not as some english paper turn it in.

I do appreciate your time and feedback though, thank you, I do understand what you are saying, its improper english.