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The Sahara Desert Today Vs 8,000 Years Ago
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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Lake Chad used to be Lake Giga Chad. It's currently a fraction of its former size.
There's an ancient lakebed in Chad that supplies dust that blows across the Atlantic and delivers phosphorus to Amazon rainforests - phosphorus that is needed to support plant growth. Those long-dead organisms are still in the food chain. Life uuh finds a way.
This is the kind of stuff the "don't tell me what to do with my land" crowd doesn't know or care about. Everything affects everything on this planet.