World turning to dust??
One third of the earth Uninhabitable
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The world is turning to dust, with increasingly vast areas becoming desert wastelands every year and threatening to send millions of people fleeing to greener countries, the United Nations says.
In Australia, irrigation systems are pumping up salty water and slowly poisoning some farms, just one of many problems the world body has highlighted.
One-third of the earth's surface is now at risk, it says, driving people into cities and destroying agriculture in vast swaths of Africa. Thirty-one per cent of Spain is at risk of becoming a desert, while China has lost 92,100 square kilometres - an area the size of Portugal - since the 1950s.
This week, the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the Convention to Combat Desertification, a plan aimed at stopping the phenomenon. But instead, the transformation into desert seems to be picking up speed - doubling its pace since the 1970s.
"It's a creeping catastrophe," said Michel Smitall, a spokesman for the UN secretariat that oversees the 1994 accord. "Entire parts of the world might become uninhabitable."
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Humanity is in for a rough ride. Its going to be interesting folks. Are you ready for the ride???
In Australia, irrigation systems are pumping up salty water and slowly poisoning some farms, just one of many problems the world body has highlighted.
One-third of the earth's surface is now at risk, it says, driving people into cities and destroying agriculture in vast swaths of Africa. Thirty-one per cent of Spain is at risk of becoming a desert, while China has lost 92,100 square kilometres - an area the size of Portugal - since the 1950s.
This week, the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the Convention to Combat Desertification, a plan aimed at stopping the phenomenon. But instead, the transformation into desert seems to be picking up speed - doubling its pace since the 1970s.
"It's a creeping catastrophe," said Michel Smitall, a spokesman for the UN secretariat that oversees the 1994 accord. "Entire parts of the world might become uninhabitable."
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Humanity is in for a rough ride. Its going to be interesting folks. Are you ready for the ride???