We are losing more than 12 million hectares of land every year. Deforestation, overgrazing, and overuse of water by people are some of the leading factors responsible for desertification. 24.1% of the Earth’s surface is made up of desertified lands, which are home to about one-sixth of the world’s population!
According to a 2013 report by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), desertification, land degradation, and droughts have accelerated during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly in arid and dry sub-humid areas.
In the last 40 years, the Earth has lost a third of its arable land to erosion and degradation. Scientists predict desertification will increase in some areas particularly where it gets hotter and drier due to climate change.
The way we stop this? Stop involving ourselves on these lands and let them recover. We caused it, we can fix it by stepping away.
