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Originally Posted by Riot
Yes, which had nothing at all to do with the previous discussion at hand, least of all the context of which I brought up Carter's name. You went off on a weird tangent. I told you if you wanted to discuss his middle east policies and successes or failures, start your own thread and enjoy.
LOL - I never said man created a drought  Man's changing the environmental ecology by tilling thousands of acres of soil was indeed the sole cause of subsequently losing all that soil when that man-altered environment was subjected to normal environmental variances. |
but tilling wasn't the sole cause. drought caused the seeds not to sprout, which meant no growth to hold the soil, which caused it to blow away. there was no reason, after years of farming that region, to think farming there was a bad thing. it certainly wasn't the farmers fault that the jet stream shifted, taking the rain with it.