In every desert region, where the original climate changed into a desert climate, there are some areas called refugia, which still hold the former vegetation. In these restricted areas the former vegetation hangs on for centuries, even thousands of years, as if patiently waiting for the return of the older climate pattern. If that ever does happen, they will then spread out and recolonize their former range.
If the cloudbuster is used to add additional stress, in the form of more cold wet winters, for example, to that already caused by excessive dryness, which they have managed to survive, they may finally die out. The greening the incompetent cloudbuster operators are seeing and thinking is a good sign, is not a revival of the older vegetation that existed before the area became a desert. It is a few species of exceptionally hardy plants that can survive the cold wet winter rains that the operators are importing into the region.
These plants are able to survive this weather because they are not native. They are imported from Europe, and therefore are adapted to cold and wet winters. By comparison with the native species, they are only a few different species, but under conditions they are adapted to and to which the more numerous native species are not adapted, they will greatly increase and make the desert look much greener, but there will be far fewer species than before.
In other words, there will be an increase in biomass, at the expense of a decrease in biodiversity. The newly dominant biota will be less able to endure the original warmer and wetter climate if the original climate ever does return. The newly dominant vegetation will be adapted to colder and wetter winters, as created by cloudbusting, and that will be a condition dependent upon continued cloudbusting operations to sustain it.
Restoration of the original climate, on the other hand, can be accomplished only by removal of the atmospheric blockages, the DOR barriers, as Reich called them, that obstruct the free pulsation and flow of orgone into and through the region. Such restoration would result in the resurection of the ancient climate, and the ancient vegetation that goes with that climate.
In Arizona Reich found that grass, a modern, highly complex form of plant, grew directly out of bare sand which contained no seeds. He was able to demonstrate under a microscope that grains of sand could transform into living plants. But this was not done just by adding water. It was done by patiently working for five months to humidify the atmosphere without causing any rain. Not a drop of rain fell as a result of what Reich did in Arizona.
Reich did not want to bring rain. He clearly stated that rain, if it had fallen, would have drowned the developing protovegetation and prevented it from developing. What strikes me as strange is that people who have read what Reich wrote do not seem to see this statement. Instead, they talk about his rainmaking expedition, and proceed to misuse the cloudbuster to induce rain in desert areas, and then boldly claim to have replicated Reichs rainmaking feats in Arizona.
Let us be clear about that. Reich never made rain in Arizona. He did not want to make rain in the desert. He did not try to do so. And he clearly stated that if he had done so it would have prevented the important discovery that he made of the potential for restoration of the pre-desertification ecology.
And it would have been placing another obstacle in the way of that eventual restoration. Which is what is being done by the present cloudbusting project in North Africa. People who try to bring rain to a desert instead of restoring the original ecology really need to go back and read what Reich wrote.
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