Over three-quarters of the land on our planet has been getting dryer and dryer for years now. Forests all over the globe are being torn down or ripped out, greenery is going the way of the dinosaur and the soil that once was rich and produced crops for our consumption is slowly being degraded.
And while that’s going down, governments from various countries around the world are using science to try and play God and fool around with the weather through conducting geoengineering experiments. Like cloud seeding for example.
Due to all of this, we’re now headed down an inevitable path toward a global famine of biblical proportions. For example, half of Africa’s population lives on dry land and the continent is facing one famine after another. And the rest of the world is likely headed in that same direction.
A report published by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, a whopping total of 77.6 percent of the land on the surface of our world is much drier than it was three decades ago.
77.6% of Earth’s land has become drier in the last three decades compared to the 30 years prior, with drylands expanding by an area larger than India to cover 40.6% of the land on Earth, except for Antarctica. And the findings, released in a new report by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification ((UNCCD), warn that if the trend continues, up to five billion people could live in drylands by the century’s end — causing soils to deplete, water resources to dwindle, and vital ecosystems to collapse.
I think it goes without saying, but when land becomes dry and desert-like, there are horrific consequences.
Indeed it is. According to the UNCCD, the transformation over the three studied decades is leading to loss of GDP, forced migration, increased mortality due to dust storms, worsening of wildfires, land erosion, vegetation degradation, salinization of water and soil, and more.
What they’re trying to say is that by the end of this century, there will be somewhere around 5 billion people that will be living on drylands. But will humanity even reach the end of the century?
In Africa, which is the driest content on the planet, folks are regularly dropping dead due to starvation. And this despite receiving tons of food assistance from every other nation in the world. So if the rest of the world goes dry, what is going to happen?
We won’t have the supplies needed to feed people and many will die as a result.
Europe is quickly drying out, with a total of 95.9 percent of the continent is headed this direction and fast.
Europe is feeling the current burn especially acutely, with a whopping 95.9% of the continent experiencing drying. Also hard hit are Brazil, parts of the western U.S., the Mediterranean region, central Africa, and eastern Asia. Water, of course, is neither created nor destroyed, merely relocated. As 77.6% of the planet has grown drier, 22.4% has grown wetter, especially in the central U.S., Angola’s Atlantic coast, and southeast Asia—regions that have seen increasingly powerful storms and flooding. But it is drying that is the dominant trend globally, and it’s coming at a steep price.
Ironically, Europeans tend to boast about how good they are at environmentalist, but they are destroying their forests and grasslands, aiding the drying out that the continent is already experiencing.
This is also happening in Brazil.
For example, in cocoa-producing regions like northeastern Brazil, deforestation to make room for agriculture disrupts local water cycles and exposes soils to degradation. Without vegetation to anchor it, topsoil – critical for plant growth – washes away during rainfall or is blown away by winds, taking with it vital nutrients. These changes create a vicious cycle: Degraded soils also hold less water and lead to more runoff, reducing the land’s ability to recover.
It should go without saying, but chopping down millions of trees is a pretty dumb thing to do. You see, when you cut down millions of trees, the land starts to dry out. When the drying out happens, you lose topsoil, which is critical.
This is much different than a drought, which is temporary. However, unless something is done to mitigate the aridity crisis we will face permanent consequences.
“For the first time, the aridity crisis has been documented with scientific clarity, revealing an existential threat affecting billions around the globe,” Ibrahim Thiaw, the UNCCD executive secretary, said in a statement. “Droughts end. When an area’s climate becomes drier, however, the ability to return to previous conditions is lost. The drier climates now affecting vast lands across the globe will not return to how they were and this change is redefining life on Earth.”
Not many people involved with the powers that be have been taking this threat as seriously as they ought. We are on the cusp of a global famine, losing a ton of nutrients in the soil, killing off pollinators and all of the microplastic particles that are coating the ground we use to grow our food. And nobody is paying attention.
Add to that the terrifying fact our Earth’s core is becoming less stable and has been changing shape.
Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new revelation about our planet’s deepest secrets — they identified changes to the inner core’s shape. Earth’s innermost layer is a hot, solid ball of metal surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. For decades, planetary scientists suspected that the solid inner core deformed over time as it spun. Now, researchers have found the first evidence of changes taking place over the past 20 years in the shape of the inner core. Signs of the core’s deformation appeared in waves from earthquakes that were strong enough to reach Earth’s center.
The research team used that same earthquake data for a 2024 study to resolve a longstanding debate over the inner core’s rotation. They found that the inner core once spun faster than Earth itself. But beginning around 2010, the solid inner core’s spin slowed. It’s now revolving backward, relative to the rest of the planet.
Things are not looking good for the future, especially if we continue the path we’re headed down. It’s not too late to try and do something to fix this problem. However, if we do nothing, if we ignore the problem before our eyes, millions of people will die of starvation in the very near future.
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