Vol. 13 | Issue 1
More Trees If You Please By: Sarah Ekẹnẹzar The sun is shining brightly outside as usual, but it feels a bit hotter than normal, so you decide to take a step outside. As you glance around, the bright green landscape that you’re accustomed to has disappeared overnight, leaving your eyes with a vision of cracked soil and withered trees. “How on Earth did this happen?” you wonder, before waking up suddenly and realizing it was only a dream. This scenario, albeit hypothetical, is an unfortunate reality for some people in different parts of the world. In recent decades, both temperatures and the human population have increased tremendously, following
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industrialization booms around the world. As a result, there are more “combined pressures of agricultural and livestock production (over-cultivation, overgrazing, forest conversion), urbanization, deforestation, and extreme weather events such as droughts and coastal surges…” to keep up with the growing human demands (WHO). Collectively, these activities make Earth more vulnerable to desertification, or “the permanent degradation of land that was once arable” (Nunez). Once formerly fertile, land is desertified, it loses its ability to properly support animals and local people (Nunez). Countries around the world have already
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