Trends of Desertification
Today desertification area accounts 1/3 of earth surface land.
Because of global warming, desertification became 20 times faster.
It spreads rapidly so that desertified area increases 6 million ha (6,000,000) per year.
This table shows how much desertified area are in each continent.
Acording to this table, the most vulnerable continent to desertification is Asia, and Africa comes next.
The table below shows the current extent of damages in several countries.
Tens of millions of people could be driven from their homes by encroaching deserts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, a report says. The study by the United Nations University suggests climate change is making desertification "the greatest environmental challenge of our times". If action is not taken, the report warns that some 50 million people could be displaced within the next 10 years. Global warming now threatens 2 billion on the edges of deserts and 3 billion on the coastlines, imagine what will happen when the 2 billion from the deserts are forced inland while the 3 billion from the coastline are forced inland – that’s a lot of frightened angry people.
