Mars is far away. The nearest planet is always right underneath!
It is the most noble task of solar technology to make this planet of ours arable!
So far, we humans always migrated after the climate zones. 15,000 years ago, the Sahara was all green, humid and full of plants. Both humans and animals lived there.
Lake Chad is the remainder of a huge lake that measured 50 metres in debth and had the dimensions of a continental sea. Today, it is dominated by the Sahara and famine keeps returning periodically at its borders, caused by irritations in agriculture due to water shortage.
If Lake Chad were free of political interests, it could be turned into the centre of a huge project. With a sweet-water pipeline from the Chad basin to the Atlantic Ocean, you could first stop the shrinking and then – through a one-hundred-year plan – let the lake slowly regrow..
Such a pipeline would be a masterpiece for 1,000 NASA engineers, because with this project they could learn more about planets than by further Mars missions. It would be an attack against desertification.
In the sense of “Plant for the Planet” and the Nobel Peace Price Winner Wangari Maathai, the Lake Chad pipeline would be a truly future-oriented project. It would serve no interests, because it would serve all interests.
The project Lake Chad Pipeline would be a first step towards global eco-engineering. Ultimately, the goal would be to make the planet arable. This is a truly supra-national task. It is rational and necessitates a new sort of enlightenment. An enlightenment which absolutely measures itself by how it sees the origin, goal and home of the human race.
So what does Desert Tec have to do with it? We need sweet water made of salt water! From the outset, I decided to mis-spell Desert Tec, because I want to reflect separately on the desert, paradize and technology. Technology might well also be a sort of desert or create deserts. We already have some ecologically sensible water projects. One of many catastrophes is Lake Aral. In the end, however, it can also serve to instigate the generation of a huge new former lake.
I would hope that water in Lake Chad would also change the cloud currents. In this way, a former equilibrium could be artificially revived for the Sahara.
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(Translated by EG)
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