Puntland Battle With Climate Change

[DR OSMAN]

Puntland is currently focusing on short-term solutions(water wells, trucking water) and long term solutions(earth dams), why don't we focus on restoring the land, especially in the 'valleys' by planting large scale trees. It only cost Australia $4 million to plant 20 million trees over 10,000 Hectares, we could do this for half that cost and pass onto our future generation 'restored land' and better 'rain' opportunities for our earth dams to store water.


I also like the idea of re-directing 'shabelle river' canal from DDS into Puntland similar to this,



We need to get the OGS to accept this, it's better an ally of DDS such as PL benefits from your river source then your enemy in Hiiraan.

I do support PL short-term solutions but we need a long-term project to pass onto our descendants. Land restoration techniques like Australia is doing is going to increase 'rain' which means our 'dams' will be full and our droughts will minimize.

 

[DR OSMAN]

According to environmentalist, a nation should have 'biodiversity' so we do need to keep our deserts, mountains, coasts, islands. But the desert portion has now become majority of the land which isn't good. We should follow the 30% model for green land, 30% desert, 10% forests. Environment diversity not environmental uniformity is the key success to a nation. U don't want 100% fertile land as that means you lose the prospect of natural resources industries becuz it may damage your eco-system. U want 'diversity' the keyword being 'diversity'.

Deserts serve a purpose, especially for 'natural resource' which are usually extracted from deserts becuz retrieving it will not disturb the eco-system like would be the case 4 fertile land, so we need to keep our desert for this future industry.

 

[Nomadic lord]

I highly doubt Puntland will ever stop being a desert.

 

[DR OSMAN]

I highly doubt Puntland will ever stop being a desert.

By planting trees especially in our 'dooxoyin or valleys' will increase rain and thus fill up our earth-dam year round, droughts reduce, the amount of positives gained is immense.