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Originally Posted by Tancredi
For me, dry land and dead and yellow grass are something disgusting and frightening.  I deeply hate the Mediterranean climate, after the desert one it is the most obscene of the earth's climates. Many people envy the climate of Sicily (sun, heat, many sunny days, no frost, snow only in the mountains etc etc), but for me it is disgusting, it only causes problems and has always been a limit to economic and social development (one of the most important). I would not wish it even on my worst enemy (except Putin's Russia  ).
I would like an asteroid (not too big) to collide with the earth or a large eruption to cover the atmosphere with fine dust or for the Gulf Stream to be blocked. Perhaps only in these conditions Sicily would have a decent and humane climate.  |
I understand your point of view, but, for Canadians, there is a fascination with deserts.
The only temperate zone desert in Canada is in the southern interior of BC. Deserts for us are exotic, and we associate them with the southwestern US, and exotic cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Deserts are the antipole of typical Canadian coniferous forests of the shield and the frozen tundra of the arctic. They are far removed from moderate Maritime climates and the humid farmlands of the great lakes region and the St. Lawrence river valley.
We find them intoxicating.
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