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The Sahara: a green and pleasant land

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The Lesson From the Sahara

What can is ahorror teach us about how people have and can dapt to periods of drought and extreme weather events? I'm asking this in light of obsede of climate changing the impats having on settlement around the globe. Three things are essential for life, water, air plant. And plants are important because they are the only source of a net increase in biomas on this planet through photo synthesis and trapping sunlight. If you destroy the plants effectively destroying a resource that's quite hard to renew in the short run. The same goes for water. We know that there's a lot of water in the sahara, close to the surface and deeper down. But mining the water

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