?Spreading Deserts and Measures to Stop Them
The chaotic weather that typifies the direct impacts of climate change can lead to weather that is far too wet just as well as weather that is far too dry. There is no longer a happy medium. As a result of this and unsustainable development practices, many areas are facing the threat of rapid and irreversible desertification.
Few places is this more apparent than in parts of China that have witnessed the expansion of the Gobi desert into formerly productive agricultural regions. Even with a massive effort to stop the spread of the sands, years of poor rainfall are enough to thwart these efforts. Sustainable development is just as much about changing practices so that such changes are less likely to occur as well as cutting the carbon emissions that make the climate increasingly chaotic in the first place.
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