However I don't know if such efforts will ever be sustainable (as in being able to permanently remove the mechanical irrigation).
Yeah, who knows. Whether things will bounce back is an open question. I think we can agree, though, that reducing the needed irrigation through remediation is an overall best practice.
It's kind of like saying that if we recycle and stop using fossil fuels we'll be able to stop the advance of global warming (global climate change).
That thinking drives me nuts. We have 300 years of intensive and always-increasing fossil fuel use. We won't return to a more habitable climate by separating the plastics and driving electrics.
That said, there are practices that can sequester quite well. It's a matter of adapting our tech and policies to utilize them. I've got a few mad schemes of my own in that department. . . .
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Yeah, who knows. Whether things will bounce back is an open question. I think we can agree, though, that reducing the needed irrigation through remediation is an overall best practice.
It's kind of like saying that if we recycle and stop using fossil fuels we'll be able to stop the advance of global warming (global climate change).
That thinking drives me nuts. We have 300 years of intensive and always-increasing fossil fuel use. We won't return to a more habitable climate by separating the plastics and driving electrics.
That said, there are practices that can sequester quite well. It's a matter of adapting our tech and policies to utilize them. I've got a few mad schemes of my own in that department. . . .