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land filing for bankruptcy — all the topsoil, none of the assets.
means the process by which fertile land turns into desert through drought, deforestation, or bad farming, and mostly doesn't turn back.
from coined in french as désertification by botanist andré aubréville in 1949, describing how west african forests were collapsing into scrubland under human pressure, not just sun.
blame ratiomostly overgrazing and bad irrigation, not just climate
sahel examplesahara has expanded roughly 10% since 1920
reversalchina's great green wall project plants trees since 1978
costun estimates $42 billion lost yearly to degraded land