Desertification: A Big Issue in Canada

As humans, we need food to survive. This is a basic need and want and has always been primarily done by farming the land. That farmed land requires sunlight, nutrients, and fresh water. If one of these three criteria is missing, the land is no longer able to birth vegetation. The biggest issue we face here in Canada is desertification. This term means that the land being classified with this is losing its water either to drought or to human causes. Desertification is a form of land degradation and is found to be an issue all over the globe. These dry lands are not just centered on a small percentage of people but affect up to half of the world’s population. This type of soil erosion is due to many factors. The biggest is the latitude of the area under concentration. Of course the closer you are to the equator the hotter and less precipitation is going to reach the land and this also affects natural weather cycles. The sad thing is however that where there is desertification, poverty will not be far. This makes sense for the reason we have poverty is because there are people without food and shelter. This connects to the lack of vegetation for with desertification the food and materials needed cannot grow to make a successful civilization. Looking at what causes desertification we can at least attempt to reverse the results. Desertification is caused by human error by globalizing prematurely.

Dry lands is a previous stage into what can develop the atrocity of desertification. These plains of ground lack moisture. These areas lose it either to evaporation or by transpiration of plants. Generally the land that is considered dry lands is still used by primitive technologies within herding and farming. This weak land is put on even l...

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...to being good stewards of the earth. We have been so graciously given this tender earth. It comes with easy land to tend, and difficult land to tend. Each situation requires a different strategy. The fall into sin is what makes us have to so strenuously work the land. It is a blessing however that we are given the technology and know how to make the best out of the situation. It is not a simple task. You do not only have to combat the harsh environment of earth but also the harsh environment of governmental organizations. The topic itself is simple, but needs to be focused on, for it is a global issue that can have many side effects. The idea of a solution is simple but requires strenuous research and policy emplacements. The lists of land issues are endless of course, but desertification is one of the biggest and should be on top of the government’s to-do list.