I'll admit that the logical conclusion of desalination or open-ocean-rainwater collection, which would be the greening of all deserts on earth, might possibly fuck with the ocean. Because 1% saltier is still 1% saltier.
However, it's still possible to make huge changes while having little effect on the ocean. A rainwater harvesting dam on the Bohai Sea, used to green an area the size of the UK, would have little effect on the worlds ocean overall.
Uhh, wouldn't that necessarily cause extinction of species that live in those deserts? I'd at least be on board for doing it to the extent that we undo our own damage... but like, the world is supposed to have some deserts.
It's based.
All the world's deserts could be greened, and the resulting water shadow would only leave the oceans 1% saltier
green land also has something like 100x more biomass than ocean per unit area
Good to know. Then I'm more mad at governments for not trying this.
Fun fact: if the US spent as much %GDP as Saudi Arabia on desalination, an entire new Colorado River could be created
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I'll admit that the logical conclusion of desalination or open-ocean-rainwater collection, which would be the greening of all deserts on earth, might possibly fuck with the ocean. Because 1% saltier is still 1% saltier.
However, it's still possible to make huge changes while having little effect on the ocean. A rainwater harvesting dam on the Bohai Sea, used to green an area the size of the UK, would have little effect on the worlds ocean overall.
Instead we’re using our water to feed their cows
Uhh, wouldn't that necessarily cause extinction of species that live in those deserts? I'd at least be on board for doing it to the extent that we undo our own damage... but like, the world is supposed to have some deserts.
Yeah, but there are tons of deserts that are man made from over farming and deforestation. Plenty of arid lands that are only recently arid