Did67 wrote:For my part, I raised the issue of serious ignorance of the environment that is the Sahara. People live there. According to an extremely extensive system of "collection" of low biomass by ruminants (goats, camels) ... But a system. I saw in this project a new form of colonialism [whether in the name of ecology or of a religion, expropriating a population of one of its resources is never defensible]. We must be able to find this on econology.
And so, socio-politically, it was, for me, a reverie of stupid engineers, I say stupid engineers in the sense that they see no further than the end of their technological passion [if you will, that is is in the same vein as the stupid agros who thought they could solve hunger in Africa with tractors and combine harvesters! In 1980, near Djenné (Mali), I took the photo of a Ferguson corpse - those legendary gray tractors from the 70s - silted up on the outskirts of the city, monument to the bullshit of "obtuse scientists" - from my point of view].
Yes, but I don't even want to talk about that, or the geopolitical risks that have unfortunately come to light since then.
It was just technically and economically stupid. Just a way for German sponsors (industrialists, bankers cited by Remundo) to deploy German technology and capital in these countries.
Desertec, to feed North Africa, or even part of sub-Saharan Africa, may one day make sense. To supply Munich or Dusseldorf, none, it was just a vague pretext.