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Today, the land is becoming desert not primarily because of climate change, but due to deforestation and overgrazing. In both our civilization and in those that
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Today, the land is becoming desert not primarily because of climate change, but due to deforestation and overgrazing. In both our civilization and in those that came before us, the main reason for desertification has been animal agriculture.
https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/grazed-and-confused/ https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/grazed-and-co...
https://www.academia.edu/es/38627904/Blame_it_on_the_goats_Desertification_in_the_Near_East_during_the_Holocene https://www.academia.edu/es/38627904/Blame_it_on_the_goats_D...