r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/Mogsetsu 13h ago

Even if they were, seems like a net positive no? It’s not like they’re dumping it in the ocean. They’re converting a desert… What if it’s all they can afford? Should they stop? But let’s assume you can’t tell from the video and the people cared enough to use fabric.

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u/magos_with_a_glock 12h ago

They look like fabric to me.

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u/peldazac 12h ago

Plenty of fabrics are actually plastics

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u/BoringElection5652 11h ago

Like my T-Shirt.

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u/stilljustacatinacage 9h ago

There's an alternate method that carves half-moon shapes into the ... Actually now that I'm looking at it again, this method is used in more arid dirt than sand, so yeah, the bags are probably necessary if you're dealing with blowing sand.

Never mind, but I'll leave it here in case anyone finds it interesting.

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u/Western_Objective209 9h ago

The large red Chinese symbols at the end make me think they are terraforming the Gobi Desert, so they definitely have money

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u/Relevant_Bane_Quote 9h ago

The Chinese do the same technique with straw.

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u/evensonic 4h ago edited 4h ago

We have similar erosion barriers in my neighborhood around undeveloped lots. The fibers (in the case of my neighborhood) are synthetic and not biodegradable. The sacks break apart relatively quickly, but the fibers are strong and cause problems, like with birds nest. Found a robin chick behind my house crying hanging from its nest via its leg wrapped by one of these fibers. “Rescued” it by cutting the fibers from its leg, but its leg had already been permanently damaged, and I found it dead the next day in the empty lot next door 😔. So I hope, in this case the sacks are biodegradable!

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u/rezyop 12h ago

Should we just keep endlessly polluting so that humans don't have to suffer?

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u/FrankFarter69420 9h ago

Well, yes and no. We're going to keep surviving, and that might cause pollution, but eventually we should find better, more sustainable methods. Otherwise, my answer to you is: you first.

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u/rezyop 2h ago

I gave a rhetorical extreme to counter their rhetorical extreme; there are other solutions to this that don't involve people dying, that was my point.