TED talk: How to green the desert and reverse climate change

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This is mind-blowing. Much of what we thought we knew about desertification is wrong.  The (proven, now) solution is counter-intuitive.  And it can reverse climate change, while helping feed the world.

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[joycemocha]

Savory's been doing this for about twenty, thirty years. I'm surprised he's not wider-known--then again, at one time I was following desert grazing issues pretty closely and geeking out pretty seriously about this stuff, at least in Oregon's desert country (the other two-thirds of the state). I might be assuming knowledge and exposure that I shouldn't be assuming.

There is a deep ecology critique of Savory, or at least there was one. I can't remember now who it was but it came out of Earth First! and had some decent objections about applying information from African desert ecologies to North American desert ecologies (in regard to cattle grazing in arid North America). However, that would have also been early in the Savory program, and from what I've seen here and there since I've been less involved, the Savory program has been modified quite a bit.