alt Hacker NewsThere must be myriad unintended consequences that would come with dumping a whole bunch of water into a desert though? It feels like there's an awful lot of hubris in thinking we could accurately predict all the changes that would cause and know it would have a net positive outcome.
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dylan604 • yesterday at 2:10 PM
If the Sahara wasn't dry, what would be the knock on effects of losing the dust from it that lands in South America?
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If there are, we should have figured them out by now, since that is the story of California during the 1840s. People redirected a bunch of water to turn the desert into a treasure. Kinda literally, since shortly after they found gold, which destroyed all the positive economic change that was brought.
Or take the Netherlands, that used to be a lot of water and now it is a lot of flat land.