What’s drier than a martini served up on a hot summer day in Arizona? Desertification, the once natural and excellerating process which converts fertile lands into arid deserts. This just in, large populations in Africa and Central Asia, ( about one billion) will be displaced by creeping desert sands within a generation, according to the United Nations University. By the look of things to come, we could also see the return of the not-so popular “dust bowl” of North America’s 1930’s too. Currently tens of millions of people are on the move trying to escape dry lifeless lands mostly in sub-sahara Africa. Unfortunately brought on by changing global climate patterns influenced from factory and auto emissions from first world countries and also from poorly planned development within that region. To help solve this problem our environmental homework should include using low energy lighting, planting CO2 sucking trees, and using fuel efficient means of transportation which will have a positive impact on the peoples of the third world and will make our homes a little less dusty.

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