Did you know? China is planting a belt of trees to protect land from the expanding Gobi Desert. This Great Green Wall is projected to extend some 4,480 kilometers (2,800 miles), stretching from outer Beijing through Inner Mongolia (Nei Monggol). Unfortunately, recent pressures to expand food production appear to have slowed this tree planting initiative. For more information view the text and data in Chapter 8 of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Lester Brown was interviewed for the latest edition of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) News. "Among the environmental issues affecting our economic prospects, climate change is certainly the area in which awareness has grown most rapidly during recent years. Unfortunately, we don’t see that much awareness on desertification," he said. Read the full interview here.