Visualizing Degree of Greenery in African Countries

[The alchemist]

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[Apollo]

Interesting map, but it is misleading due to taking entire national averages.

Northern Morocco and Coastal Algeria and Tunisia are about as green as Southern Somalia.

Kenya has also big differences. The Turkana and Rendille areas are dry as f*ck, while the Luhya area is like a tropical rainforest (in its original state).

 

[The alchemist]

Interesting map, but it is misleading due to taking entire national averages.

Northern Morocco and Coastal Algeria and Tunisia are about as green as Southern Somalia.

Kenya has also big differences. The Turkana and Rendille areas are dry as f*ck, while the Luhya area is like a tropical rainforest (in its original state).

Yup. The distribution of greenery is different from country to country. I assume the good people of Somalispot can at least engage with that basic level of understanding.

For example, I assume Northern Chad is something between Niger and Sudan, from West to East, and the southern areas are more similar to the neighboring countries. The then approximates an average, masking the complexity of topography.

 

[The alchemist]

And Somaliland is not a country

Be mature and don't derail this thread, bro. There are plenty of threads where you can lament your emotions.

@Apollo I'd appreciate it if you could clean this up.

 

[celidheere]

We're actually so lucky we took over Jubbaland, it can sustain our population in the future inshallah

 

[The alchemist]

We're actually so lucky we took over Jubbaland, it can sustain our population in the future inshallah

Africa is generally an underyielding continent when it comes to agriculture. I'm sure adopting high-yielding technologies to our lands could increase things by a lot.

 

[Apollo]

We're actually so lucky we took over Jubbaland, it can sustain our population in the future inshallah

Kind of weird how Jubbaland is much greener than NFD. Even kilometers away from the Jubba river the Jubbaland region is still greener than NFD.

Maybe something to do with Indian Ocean currents/winds.

 

[Username]

We are cursed with hot and dry land, Somalia was doomed to fail.

Congo is more embarrassing though, look at all that greenery and other resources they have, what a waste.

 

[Apollo]

We are cursed with hot and dry land, Somalia was doomed to fail.

Congo is more embarrassing though, look at all that greenery and other resources they have, what a waste.

The Ethiopian highlands made Somaliweyn dry the most. Those highlands suck up a lot of rainfall that otherwise would have also spread to Somaliweyn.

Look at the Amhara province and then look at the Afar province.. Elevation differentiation is the cause for the aridity on the Afar side.

In a gazillion years however Somaliweyn will be an island somewhere in the Indian Ocean and then we'll be as green as Southern India.

 

[Apollo]

@The alchemist @Pioneer @Shimbiris @celidheere

Good thing for anthropology/history nerds is that in arid regions of the world, human remains tend to keep their DNA record for much longer than in heavy rainfall areas.

We can get a perfect record of all the groups that lived in Somalia from as early as 50,000 years ago, lol.

 

[Username]

The Ethiopian highlands made Somaliweyn dry the most. Those highlands suck up a lot of rainfall that otherwise would have also spread to Somaliweyn.

Look at the Amhara province and then look at the Afar province.. Elevation differentiation is the cause for the aridity on the Afar side.

In a gazillion years however Somaliweyn will be an island somewhere in the Indian Ocean and then we'll be as green as Southern India.

Man Ethiopia keeps fucking us over one way or another, we should've settled there

If only we could speed up the African split, humanity may not even last another thousand years at this rate.

 

[The alchemist]

We are cursed with hot and dry land, Somalia was doomed to fail.

Congo is more embarrassing though, look at all that greenery and other resources they have, what a waste.

Most of Congos is forest, only a bit more than 13% can be cultivated as is. The rest poses many infrastructural barriers within their current capacity range, a big problem for development.

 

[Apollo]

Most of Congos is forest, only a bit more than 13% can be cultivated as is. The rest poses many infrastructural barriers within their current capacity range, a big problem for development.

Look at Eastern Brazil. It used to be rainforest, but the evil neanderthug Europeans have turned it into Kenya-Tanzania type of land (arable useful for cash crops).

 

[The alchemist]

@The alchemist @Pioneer @Shimbiris @celidheere

Good thing for anthropology/history nerds is that in arid regions of the world, human remains tend to keep their DNA record for much longer than in heavy rainfall areas.

We can get a perfect record of all the groups that lived in Somalia from as early as 50,000 years ago, lol.

Humid areas, I believe, have much more genetic degradation and contamination compared to dry desert areas. In past times, the latter conditions were a problem, but now that techniques to sequence plus technology have improved, things are looking optimistic on that end.

 

[HiraanBorn]

Man Ethiopia keeps fucking us over one way or another, we should've settled there

If only we could speed up the African split, humanity may not even last another thousand years at this rate.

This is exactly why sorting out our politics, economy and military are the supreme priorities of all Somali people

We need to take over those fertile highlands from those Xabashi imperialists, just like they took
over our dry Ogaden which I never understood

 

[celidheere]

This is exactly why sorting out our politics, economy and military are the supreme priorities of all Somali people

We need to take over those fertile highlands from those Xabashi imperialists, just like they took
over our dry Ogaden which I never understood

We should've carried on expanding down into the fertile Kenyan lands