Years ago, there were attempts made to "save" the desert, to take this useless, vast space and turn it into something good and productive. That was the grand idea. There were talks and plans to terraform the Sahara desert and turn it into a lush forest. Geoengineering is basically terraforming on Earth.
But guess what!
It turned out, it wasn't useless at all, in many ways, but one of the most amazing ones is that the sand from the Sahara desert fertilizes the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
This is something we didn't know earlier, and then discovered. Imagine if they would have succeeded in "saving the Sahara" and transforming it into a forest. What would have been the effect on the Amazon?
Just think of the harmony of it all.
There are so many processes we are still only beginning to grasp, and we are far from understanding the incredible intricacies of EVERYTHING...
The arrogance of the mere thought is baffling. To think that there is nothing left to discover. Science keeps reminding us there is! Throughout history, even recent history, it has also made plenty of mistakes, but it keeps self-correcting, keeps exploring, and discovering. That's one of the beautiful things about science. However, mistakes are still being made, and no, we don't know how everything works. Our bodies are incredible, and we have enormous healing capabilities, especially if we nurture those. That detail really matters.... Developing a body which has learned to rely on itself, and it can only learn such things through experience, step by step. It needs to be given the opportunity to learn. Otherwise, it won't, it can't. Makes sense, no?
You may have heard stories where this or that just had to be done in order to help someone, and even when true, there are plenty of stories where something else was done in a similar situation, and it also worked! So let's not be arrogant... and let us always remember how powerful nature is. This planet, which is our home, our bodies, which are also our home, and our consciousness... they are all part of nature. Part of that balance.
Remember that... and drinks lots of water.
For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish.
An average of 27.7 million tons of dust per year – enough to fill 104,980 semi trucks – fall to the surface over the Amazon basin. The phosphorus portion, an estimated 22,000 tons per year, is about the same amount as that lost from rain and flooding.