Dying lands: Farmers fight to save the 'skin of the Earth'

There are cases where flooding is a normal part of agriculture, such as the Nile Delta. But as the climate changes, we need to tweak farming a little.

As large organisations and political regimes are corrupt and driven by vested interests, we need to fix this ourselves, with local solutions that rely on local knowledge and work well.

Farms need to manage water flow, moving excess water into their own reservoirs to use during periods of drought. This is not really optional any more. Stop waiting for the government to do it. Politicians only do things when it is too late. Do it yourselves and do it now.

Rain/flood management, reservoirs, drip irrigation, solar and turbine power, use of covered areas and indoor hydroponics are the areas to invest in. Industrialise your own compost creation, turning waste into soil conditioner.

Green manuring is key to maintaining soil nutrition and protects soil in all but the most extreme cases.

We also need to switch varieties and crops to cope with the changing climate, and make better use of land. If you have space for trees, shrubs or hedgerows, plant ones that produce edible fruit, for humans and wildlife. And stop growing crops to feed animals. It wastes too many resources.

@proxy. GMO is an agrocorporate lock-in, like buying an iThing from Apple. It is best avoided.

The end of the agriculture is only the beginning. The civilization of this planet, Earth, is following suit the extinct civilization of our neighbor planet, Venus. That planet used to be cool, but underwent a greenhouse process, and now its atmospheric temperature is measured in hundreds of degrees Celsius. NASA's scientists know exactly what happened on Venus.

There is also some good news. Kenya recently lifted their ridiculous GMO ban which will mean farmers will be able, for the first time, to access genetics for crops that can grow in dry conditions and improve soil quality while dramatically reducing soil erosion. They will be able to rebuilt soils.

On the Canadian prairies, decades of conservation tillage is increasing soil organic matter and slowly increasing the amount of topsoil.

Its not all doom and gloom.

It's a dire situation, but not an unsolvable problem. Stop all this "defence" garbage, learn to live together country to country and cooperate. If we put our attention and energy into making this planet a sustainable environment, we could do it. Less of the "money games" and senseless wars. Life on planet Earth could be heaven or hell. It's up to us. And there isn't any other place to go. We're all in it together, like it or not!