Sunday, October 04, 2009

UN Warns of 70 Percent Desertification by 2025

Independent/4 October 2009

Drought could parch close to 70 percent of the planet's soil by 2025 unless countries implement policies to slow desertification, a senior United Nations official has warned. ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/un-warns-of-70-percent-desertification-by-2025-1797553.html

Who is responsible for turning the earth into a dried prune? Industry.

But who will pay to counter the desertification trend, if that is possible? Taxpayers.

Anyone who wanted to stop it was an "environmental whacko."

(I'm on-topic with this, though it probably didn't seem that way at first glance.)

- AC