Letter and response from Allan Savory on 2/8/18 regarding trees, grasslands, and desertification.
Letter and response from Allan Savory on 2/8/18 regarding trees, grasslands, and desertification.
To address desertification and climate change we have, as I pointed out in my talk, the following tools- 1. Technology in its many forms. 2. Fire to burn vegetation. 3. Resting the environment to allow nature to recover (conservation it is commonly called today). Apart from those 3 tools we now are only left with one other possibility and that is to use technology to plant trees, shrubs or grasses. That is the full human toolbox as we established when the US government engaged me to put some 2,000 scientists and others through a week of training in the use of the holistic framework in the early 1980s – and no one has come up with any other tool since.
Society, and thus all our organizations/institutions, vilify livestock, blaming them for causing desertification and climate change. Society, and thus all institutions, believe in technology solving all problems. Society and thus institutions believe conservation restores and regenerates biodiversity in all environments. And society/institutions also believe planting trees will reverse man-made desertification. Such deep beliefs are always supported by our institutions that lead opposition and rejection of any new counter-intuitive or paradigm-shifting insights.
Letter and response from Allan Savory on 2/8/18 regarding trees, grasslands, and desertification.