Deb ChachraA friend pointed me to a TED talk by a Swedish architect who proposed a massive environmental intervention in Africa -- using bacteria to fix Saharan sand in place to create a 'wall' and so halt desertification -- while freely admitting that he didn't know any of the details and it made me realise: neocolonialism driven by anthropogenic climate change is really going to be a thing.
mk30@debcha it's already a thing. as long as would-be planet managers see the land as just something they can mess with & use for whatever purpose they see fit (instead of seeing themselves as part of a living ecosystem that deserves respect, in which they should only make changes in small & incremental steps, observing results, changing course, etc.), they're going to keep replicating colonial patterns.