ARID LANDS Can they be reclaimed in time? - Eugene M Waller & Gene H Hogberg - October 1969

Eugene M Waller & Gene H Hogberg

Can deserts and near-deserts be reclaimed in time to prevent massive starvation in a world threatened by population explosion? Here is a challenging, on-the-spot report from an international conference on this vital subject. Tucson, Arizona. More than one third of the earth's land surface is arid or semiarid. These arid lands almost equal the combined areas of the North and South American continents. That is a lot of land! Sand deserts alone - and they are but one type of arid land - cover a total area almost twice the size of the U. S. That, too, is a huge chunk of territory. Some sixty countries - about half of the nations in the world - are affected by aridity. Even in the agriculturally rich continental American states, 32 percent of the land is arid or semiarid. As the food and population time bomb keeps ticking away, can these arid lands be conquered and made useful to man before it is too late? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library