We can end drought by restoring soil and local water cycles.
Intense scary global heat waves, drought, and food and water shortages are dominating the news in 2022. National crop production is down about a third. Texas lost 70% of the cotton crop and half the cattle during drought-driven culling. This will not get better without radical changes in how we grow food. Most kids in the plains are required to watch Dust Bowl footage in school.
We know how to fix it. But will we? Is it even ethical to inspire ranchers to stay and fight against the odds to bring their land back to life? I worry because the Southwest faces two cruelties: The local water cycles are broken, and we are subject to the drought and flood whiplash of large-scale climate change. We have to quickly fix our local water cycles because we have little control over macro drought-flood whiplash patterns.
The arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the Earth. We can't refreeze glaciers but we can heal our soil, local water cycles, and wells. In a healthy ecosystem, you can save all the rain you get in the soil. Earth with healthy plant cover, deep roots, and rich soil is up to 40 degrees cooler than bare soil, the rain sucks deep into good soil, and the preserved moisture then transpires through leaves in a balanced water cycle making local rain.
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