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Desertification -- The Oldest Form of Climate Change
The only way we can address desertification -- perhaps the world’s oldest form of climate change -- is by taking a holistic view that blames not human-induced activities so much as natural processes that have been at work for thousands of years. The Chinese may have evolved the most advanced approach, based on an understanding that people have found ways to live with and even flourish in desertified regions. Franz Schurmann, emeritus professor of history and sociology at UC Berkeley, has watched the impact of dust storms from China from his home in San Francisco.
The only way we can address desertification -- perhaps the world’s oldest form of climate change -- is by taking a holistic view that blames not human-induced activities so much as natural processes that have been at work for thousands of years. The Chinese may have evolved the most advanced approach, based on an understanding that people have found ways to live with and even flourish in desertified regions. Franz Schurmann, emeritus professor of history and sociology at UC Berkeley, has watched the impact of dust storms from China from his home in San Francisco.
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