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Zoomwafflez t1_iy96dnm wrote

Reply to comment by Bifferer in This Man's Campaign To Restore Village's Groundwater Levels Found Success With 3,500 New Water Bodies by GivenAllTheFucksSry

I was watching a doc about a guy in Australia doing something similar, just making little 1-2 foot dirt ridges along his property perpendicular to the slope, tiny pools of water would build up behind each one and in just a few years all kind of trees and shrubs were growing along each ridge and the groundwater was being replenished.

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dalumbr t1_iy9tcuq wrote

Permaculture!

It's wild how this sort of thing isn't discussed more with so many issues being tied back to water scarcity and desertification

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LiedAboutKnowingMe t1_iy9z5hm wrote

A lot of the people involved were pretty right adjacent in the beginning and when MAGA/Q came it bit a lot of permies. Paul Wheaton talking about women, queers, and libs was never pleasant but after MAGA came around I no longer wanted to hear his voice.

I have started finding new ways to talk about permaculture because now when I interact with people they often already have a negative connotation with that word.

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Waste_Return_3038 t1_iyaerl4 wrote

The suggested videos when I first was learning about permaculture were very strange, I think you just explained it. Cheers 🤣

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LiedAboutKnowingMe t1_iybvf74 wrote

Yes! The next video auto plays and suddenly I am watching Nazi Ken and Barbie who went to get back in touch with their aryan roots while doing their best to make sure white children won’t be outnumbered.

Like wow. I’m just here to learn about soil restoration with limited resource input.

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CantHideFromGoblins t1_iyaj6d6 wrote

I once read this book about some climatologist who would plant these tiny grass saplings in the desert. But it was a super hot and arid desert with just loose sand. So he built this small metal plate on a stick that was super simple and he could mass produce in his garage. But anyways he’d plant the grass and bury the plate beneath it with only a tiny bit stick out. And the plate would get extremely hot during the day, but in the night it would retain the heat into the coldest part to let the grass survive. Then it would get cold so once the morning started again it would condense any moisture in the air that would then water the grass. They were self sufficient once in the ground so he just went wild planting them everywhere until the government had to intervene as it started damaging the wildlife that live inside the desert

He was also assassinated or something before his work was finished idk

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TealSkies44 t1_iyar4b5 wrote

This is fascinating, do you remember the name of the book or any google-able search words I could use to try to find it?

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CantHideFromGoblins t1_iyb9hjp wrote

There was a biography book called Dune, although it’s much more about this other guy trying to find a way to make the climatologists dream a reality and the politics of it since he was the son of some rich guy or something. I think they made the book into a documentary recently but they only covered the first half which annoyed a lot of people

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