Regreening the Sinai : Ties van der Hoeven of the Weathermakers

A project to ecorestore the Sinai desert and the regional climate there.
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and to support this work / watercology
Time Stamps
12:15 Lake Bardawil
15:25 John Todd, eco-machines, aquatic food webs, purifying water, geodesic domes
20:15 upgrading lake sediments to soil, growing plants, fog nets
31:00 bringing excess glacier water
36:45 bringing up the soil up the land
37:25 birds spreading seeds and regreening the land
44:30 restoring the water cycle, bringing back the rain, shifting the winds
Ties Van der Hoeven's group WeatherMakers theweathermake...

[@debradykstra8703]

Very inspiring! As a long time practitioner of permaculture and lover of soil science, this makes perfect sense to me. It's time our leaders make way for new, workable systems! Thank you for sharing this. Let it rain!

[@TheHoveHeretic]

I've had to watch several segments multiple times, stopping to cross-ref those parts I'm fuzzier on (If I'm being honest, that's rather too much for comfort!!). Deeply impressed by the procedure to desalinate marine sediments, the potential applications of which goes way beyond Sanai ... Local to me, I'm thinking of Cantre'r Gwaelod (Cardigan Bay, Cymru).
The scale and scope of this project is literally awesome and has truly global socio-economic implications.

[@DookiePoop.69]

If I understand the graph at 51:00 correctly, then it makes sense to me that this could increase the amount of water going into the nile. Which could be very interesting for the Egyptian government, since it would give them even more food security than the sinai alone, and it could prevent a future war with Ethiopia

[@DookiePoop.69]

I worded it pretty badly lol. I meant that it could increase rain in Ethiopia and the flow of the blue nile, increasing how much water is available to egypt

[@mirandapillsbury7885]

regreening the Sinai would also help encourage more population growth there. Currently the Sinai only has 600k people. If the sinai is greened it could help some of Egypt's congestion issues in its mega cities like Cairo and Alexandria. More people would probably be more open to the idea of moving there since there will also be new opportunities for tourism and other industries in the Sinai as it gets greener and greener and more able to sustain larger life. Having a larger population in the Sinai is also important for security reasons. HAving more people will mean more funding for security and safety and so terror groups that have ran rampant in the Sinai will be more challenged. Additionally, Israel has recently expressed interest in moving Palestinians to the Sinai which is illegal in international law. A big part for why it encouraged that is because the Sinai is so big and so empty. If the Sinai is properly populated by Egyptians there would be less logic and feasibility of pushing the Palestinians out of Gaza and into Sinai.

[@user-hh3cz1km6h]

Egypt does not want Palestinians. Muslims in the family, all nonwhite, are always willing to discuss the Palestinian problem. As Jordan found out the hard way, at the beginning of all troubles are Palestinian leaders, pushing for revolt. Islam has 57 nations. None want any Gazan moving there, especially nonwhite nations. Most Muslim nations want to completely modernize, not return to 8th century violence. Many of these nations look to Israel for agriculture innovations, and Israel pushes 50% of their GDP toward helping all neighbors with ag and health care.