I couldn't decide on which place to put this in (tavern, WEPRE) so I put it here hoping I would get well thought out answers and debates among each other. My question is, if you could turn all the deserts into basicly seas(so putting water ontop of the sand), do you think it would be benificial?
can you elaborate on how does it play a significant role?
I'm going to be completely honest, I can't, but I can assume from the basic knowledge of science that I have, that these areas have formed for a reason and turning them into fertile land is just as bad as chopping down rain forests.
In truth, Deserts don't really do anything. Aside from supporting different forms of life, they don't have any control over our global climate.
Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that changing miles of land from dry, hot, ground, into seas, or oceans won't **** up the climate on a global scale?
I'd think a more suitable solution would be to have all of those who don't like living there to live somewhere else. There deserts have their own unique ecosystems that have animals that can't be found anywhere else in the world.
If you need water, then there are other more practical alternatives than changing large swaths of the map into being something else.
If you wanna say that, look at the topic "wold the earth be better off without humans"
but humans are living beings and not natural phenomnon (idk how to spell that XP). what NATURAL phenomnan (lol) actually hurt the earth? idk much about the gysers but im sure that getting rid of all the water like that is a much bigger change. in some places getting rid of worms was a horibble mistake and led to extreme changes that made a place inhabitable (another spelling mistake :3). changing the desert would defenitely effect the entire world.
AS the world changes landmarks and regions change, it's just a natural process. Did you know the deserts of Arabia were once covered by sea water? When the water receded food became scarce and many of animals/plants living there died or evolved. A sudden change to an ecosystem could be beneficial or it could be detrimental, it all depends on how you look at it. Personally I think nature's ability to adapt to new conditions is just a testament to life itself. If an organism really wants to live it will find a way.
The world is inanimate. It will change over time b/c of the interactions of different natural forces. Organisms, however, don't evolve to new ecological niches in 5 minutes. Their evolution and adaptation won't match the speed of such an instantaneous great flood. It'd be the genocide of millions of unique species (and people).
Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that changing miles of land from dry, hot, ground, into seas, or oceans won't **** up the climate on a global scale?
The water will, the desert, dosen't have much about the climate, I can't see how it affects the climate other than since there's no ocean there there's not as much rain.
If an organism really wants to live it will find a way
.... did you read your own post? that means that the species that dont exist anymore didnt want to live... im sure thats not the case...
The water will, the desert, dosen't have much about the climate, I can't see how it affects the climate other than since there's no ocean there there's not as much rain.
we just talked about it. ocean and desert are pretty much opposites. if a desert would sudently turn into an ocean there would be horibble fluids. and if an ocean would turn into a desert that place would be dried up forever. you cant change things so quickly and expect nature to follow. changes like that take millions of years
To add in to what we were talking about regarding new enterprises going into the desert -
They're releasing "Camel milk ice cream" soon, all around the UK. Will they do into the desert and give camel owners a fair wage? Or will they make camels live in a climate and conditions they're not used to just to exploit this new incentive?
AS the world changes landmarks and regions change, it's just a natural process. Did you know the deserts of Arabia were once covered by sea water? When the water receded food became scarce and many of animals/plants living there died or evolved. A sudden change to an ecosystem could be beneficial or it could be detrimental, it all depends on how you look at it. Personally I think nature's ability to adapt to new conditions is just a testament to life itself. If an organism really wants to live it will find a way.
Well I heard that some deserts where once oceans and I thought, "why not change it back?"
The world is inanimate. It will change over time b/c of the interactions of different natural forces. Organisms, however, don't evolve to new ecological niches in 5 minutes. Their evolution and adaptation won't match the speed of such an instantaneous great flood. It'd be the genocide of millions of unique species (and people).
It probably would, I think it would be more the sudden pressure change and shock, than the inability to swim that would kill all the creatures.
we just talked about it. ocean and desert are pretty much opposites. if a desert would sudently turn into an ocean there would be horibble fluids. and if an ocean would turn into a desert that place would be dried up forever. you cant change things so quickly and expect nature to follow. changes like that take millions of years
I don't think it would actualy follow an just die instead, which would then become nice nutrients for the fish to feed on.
If an organism really wants to live it will find a way
What I meant is it will try to their fullest extent to find a way to survive.
any organism would try that. no organism just gives up on its life. anyway just face it. doing such a dramatical change could destroy the whole world. it needs balance
any organism would try that. no organism just gives up on its life. anyway just face it. doing such a dramatical change could destroy the whole world. it needs balance
You went too far, it wouldn't destroy the whole world. It might make it a bit harder to live in at most, but it wouldn't destroy us and DEFINATLY not the world.
