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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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I’ve seen a few posts on this and it’s always exciting to see this mix of cultural wisdom and environmentalism.
But I’m always left wondering why we aren’t supporting these communities with some heavy equipment to do this. From the article it takes a person an entire day to dig one of these moons. Surely some construction equipment could work order(s?) of magnitude faster. I can’t help the hinting feeling that we’re offloading all of the burdens of addressing global climate change onto the communities that are already paying the steepest price.
Is it the climate? How remote the locations are? Challenges with sourcing parts? Hope someone can clarify why heavy equipment would be prohibitive.
You have to supply the support network for the equipment. For a lot of less developed areas, it isn't worth it to supply a tractor which will become a statue.
And part of the project is to employ local labor