June 17
Theme for 2020
What is Desertification?
Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. Mainly caused by human activity and climatic variability. Earth is understood as all the components of the soil, water and air system in these natural physical spaces that cover one third of the earth's surface worldwide. It is the soil as a space for dynamic interaction that is affected by its biological activity and productivity. Overexploitation and improper use of land are processes that determine the loss of quality or health of the soil. Deforestation, overgrazing and poor irrigation practices negatively affect its productivity.
"Through the Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, the aim is to educate people on how to reduce their individual impact"
Today I share with you, dear readers, a topic related to our Mother Earth, our Pachamama. My reflective prose is focused on the theme of land degradation in areas of high susceptibility to desertification, in the framework of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. The devastation that humans are causing by the advance of the deforested surface worldwide has influence. In addition to global soil degradation and/or contamination in areas with high susceptibility to desertification.
From my thoughts, my words and my actions, I have dedicated, dedicate and will continue to dedicate my life to raising my voice in defense, protection, care and preservation of our Mother Earth
As well as the World Environment Day, once celebrated with protocol acts from some institutions and with events and central acts from others. In this year of pandemic, celebrations, agreements and commemorations were not long in coming in the digital environment. The day of the environment is to celebrate each and every day of our lives, putting all our commitment, enthusiasm, energy, conviction and love in the understanding that we ourselves are responsible for our environmental problems and therefore we are called to participate actively and prominently in the remediation, protection and preservation of our environment.
Thus we arrive at the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought and we continue to believe that what happens in relation to the erratic pattern of rainfall is a problem isolated or generated by hydrometeorological phenomena that arrive from other territories. There are also those who think that if it rains it will lower the temperature in each of our living spaces. Everything that is happening at the moment in relation to the minimum and maximum temperatures and the sudden changes that have been registered correspond to an anthropic action that has somehow affected the ecological balance in our environmental systems. As long as our surface water bodies and ocean masses continue to be polluted, the vital function of phytoplacton, which is none other than to produce oxygen, diminishes. As long as we continue to deforest and deplete our forest areas we continue to lose the possibility of producing oxygen, increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide and will continue to increase the temperature, also reducing our water catchment areas. As we see, it is an action that systemically affects the hydrological cycle which in turn affects all biogeochemical cycles and the life of human beings and every living being that inhabits the earth that requires water to live. Water limits life and the non-availability of water in the soil, in addition to limiting life, favours soil degradation processes, generating areas with high susceptibility to desertification.
The reason why I express these aspects beforehand is to locate the situation of climate variability at a global level because in addition to this situation that diminishes the quality of life of all living beings, we have the problem that it generates for human beings because it is directly a limiting factor for food production and the recharge of aquifers in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas worldwide. Overexploitation and inappropriate land use degrade large amounts of productive land globally. This is a result of the increase in the population that requires or demands more food. Deforestation, overgrazing and poor irrigation practices negatively affect soil productivity, thus generating vast areas of degraded and/or contaminated soils that increase the susceptibility of these areas to desertification.
The human being must put an end to this predatory action because Mother Earth, with its capacity for resilience, can support events and restore and/or recover the balances altered by the human being; however, the human being will feel the rigour of the non-productivity of our soils.
Grateful for all the days lived
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Grateful with #Pachamama who every day gives me the opportunity to watch the Miracle of Life
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