Latest comments posted about Drought without end? on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2803-Drought-without-end- http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2803-Drought-without-end- Irrigation carries serious responsibilities and prior to planning irrigation a critical study of soils and indeed the likely hood of underlying salt must be undertaken. Nations have tried ad hoc irrigation witnessing widespread saline crop pasture land. Our drought proofing desert reversal trial plantings of C4 vegetation here are successful and with the ministerial and local government help we start broad plantings. With planning we will in time restart the carbon/trace element cycles and in turn start the rain cycles. The study of nature and replicating her lessons with modern expertise PRC can demonstrate not only reversing desertification but in so doing sustainably sequester mass volumes of CO2 restarting the carbon cycle. Ad hoc water is but a part of solution a master plan soil water vegetation atmospheric reparation is demanded at all levels. Robert Vincin Beijing Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:13:09 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8521 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8521 These years we have witnessed highways all around the country have become longer and longer,while there's no intention of reconstructing those irrigation works facilities aged for long in villages.Where on the earth has the annual "Sannong(agriculture,villages and farmers)" fund granted by the central government gone? Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:06:34 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8495 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8495 In lots of areas, farmers have left the land considering the commercial loss from cost of seeds, fertilizer, irrigation and ploughing. The government has increased farming subsidies, however, this drought has shown that using subsidies as a method to entice farmers back to the land is not as valuable as investing the money into infrastructural constructions (e.g. irrigation equipments). If this were to be done, the cost for planting will decrease dramatically and will cause the farmers to will be more willing to return to the land. (by Fangfang CHEN) Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:37:48 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8455 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8455 I am Australian serving here in PRC since 2005 as invited foreign expert in drought proofing and CO2 reversal. Your assumptions re Australia like some of your article assumptions are incorrect. Firstly Australia a case and point has suffered drought increasingly for 50years mass (almost total) land clearing stalled transpiration from oceans to inland catchments. There are only 4 assets soil water vegetation atmosphere and the World Bank state the human body dies with such damage (the planet is a living organism). Droughts deserts rural poverty can be reversed. PRC has the will the need and the people and reparation has commenced setting a global model --Robert Vincin Beijing Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:48:51 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8452 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8452 This is nature's revenge against humankind, humankind must fear nature, or at the very least learn to coexist harmoniously. Drought has already been a way to provide feedback for humankind about their negative effects on nature, moreover this kind of thing definitely has a complex and delayed effect. We must not see the solution to this problem as simple. It's the same as the economic crisis, except the economic crisis could be solved in two or three years, but who knows when nature's vengeance against humankind will end? (Translated by Braden Latham-Jones.) Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:32:47 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8449 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2803#comment-8449