Desertification is largely man-made and caused by land degradation - clearing forests for agriculture, using the land irresponsibly, then moving on. Sure some

Desertification is largely man-made and caused by land degradation - clearing forests for agriculture, using the land irresponsibly, then moving on. Sure some plains may be burning more green, but those plains were once rainforests. The place I grew up - South Devon - was once a temperate rainforest. Yet the landscape I know (and thought was beautiful) is fields of grass and shrubs. The Moors. It would almost certainly return to being a rainforest if not for the active management (grazing and controlled burns). It's funny that that landscape looks very similar to the picture in the article despite being in a very different part of the world.