Opinion: How wildfires in Algeria and California reveal colonial origins of the 'Mediterranean climate' (via latimesopinion )
the misapprehension that the Sahara was growing north. Flammable Aleppo pine was planted. Pine caterpillar invasions devastated the trees, and humans contributed to deforestation. Still, this effort continues to be funded by the African Union, the World Bank and the European Union, part of a larger project of a green band of trees and vegetation across the entire length of the Sahara that will likely fail.
Diana K. Davis, a professor of history at UC Davis, has suggested in her book “The Arid Lands” that the Middle East is part of a dryland complex, including North Africa, raising the question of whether Algeria has a Mediterranean climate at all but instead its own semi-arid ecological condition.
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