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Environmental Crisis
"We Have An Environmental Crisis Because We Have A People Crisis - A Crisis of
Population Growth, of Wasteful Consumption of Resources, and A Crisis of Apathy
An environmental crisis is an emergency concerned with the place in which every
human lives - the environment. A people crisis is an emergency with the
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.... conditions into the Sahel - a process
called desertification.
Traditionally, the people of the drier, northern Sahel followed a nomadic
lifestyle, constantly moving their herds of cattle, sheep and goats over large
areas in the search for suitable grazing land. These movements prevented
overgrazing and lessened the likelihood of land degradation. With increasing
human numbers, the increased intensity of land use, and the harvesting of trees
and scrub for fuel wood threaten to overwhelm the region's fragile environment
and result in permanent ecological damage and declining standard ....
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