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Old 07-03-2012, 10:27 AM   #373
jimhelm
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
I mean, just imagine: the Sahara, largest desert in the world, was entirely fertile green grassland ONLY 6000 years ago. It was the "loser" in some round of climate change that happened just before mankind was taking notice and measuring shit and writing shit down. They figure its complete conversion to desert was ONLY 1100 years ago. But now, shortly* after this loss of fertile land, the planet has the capacity to feed 7 billion people.

We'll be fine.



*"shortly" in geologic time.
Many years ago, Chuck Norris lit a fart in the Sahara Forest.....
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