COP21: The Spreading Deserts of Mother Earth

COP21-CRITICAL STATE OF MOTHER EARTH-HARD TRUTH

Deserts: Because of industrial agriculture, global warming, logging, draining aquifers, and redirecting river water, some 6-million hectares (15-million acres) of productive land turns into desert every year. The Sahara desert, once productive grassland, grows at about 48km (almost 30 miles) per year. The Syrian Desert was once a beautiful cedar forest. The once great Aral Sea, full of fish and able to support many communities, is now mostly desert.

A lone pale rock rests on cracked, dry earth of a desert lakebed, with rugged mountains under a deep blue sky.

Vast rolling sand dunes with sharp wind-carved ridges stretch to the horizon under a pale blue sky.