DROUGHT OCCURS WHEN WE ABUSE AND MISMANAGE LAND. IT IS NOT PRIMARILY THE RESULT OF "CLIMATE CHANGE" OR “GREENHOUSE GASES”
Abuse of land and anti-ecological land management causes drought, desertification, heat waves, floods and erratic weather.
Please check out Episode #374 of The Climate Report, by clicking on the link.
Drought is misunderstood as an effect of climate change. But drought has its own set of causes, and is itself a cause of climate change. In fact, drought IS climate change. And it is mostly caused by human mismanagement of the land.
We can prevent drought by practicing the principles of soil health: Avoid tillage and chemical fertilizers, avoid toxic pesticides, which degrade biodiversity, keep the ground covered with organic matter and/or plants, keep living roots in the ground at all times, incorporate animals and nurture biological diversity at all levels.
We can prevent drought by avoiding deforestation and avoiding the degradation of our forests at the hands of the timber industry, which promotes myriad harmful practices, such as clearcutting, spraying of pesticides and clearing of valuable dead wood in the name of “fuel reduction.”
We can prevent drought by designing for hydration, not drainage, in our cities, roads, parks, as well as our commercial properties and military installations.
We need to soak up the rain, not slough it off. We need to treat water as a resource, not a nuisance.
We need to practice regenerative agriculture by having biologically diverse farms that can be havens for wildlife and plant diversity, as well as providing nutrient dense food, not the junk food that comes from monocrops and concentrated animal feeding operations, which abuse both people and animals.
In all things we can restore our water cycles. Drought represents broken water cycles. We break water cycles primarily by what we do to the land, irrespective of greenhouse gases.
Excess CO2 is harmful because it acidifies the oceans. That’s a big deal. It is a huge deal, because it poses a threat to coral reefs, bony fishes and all sea creatures that have a shell or a skeleton. But as a greenhouse gas, it does not deserve the cultish obsession that we see in our climate coverage.
Drought is misunderstood as a lack of precipitation, but more important is how much precipitation does the ground absorb, and how much water can the ground hold. If the ground holds water, then periods of low rainfall will not have the power to destroy the vitality of the land, the plants or the animals.
If we care for the land and manage it holistically and ecologically--including the strategic use of grazing livestock--then we can restore the land and prevent drought.
This is one of the many unreported facts about "climate change."
Please check out this special one hour episode of “The Climate Report, Drought: Causes & Solutions.”