Writing in the Irish Times, Paddy Woodworth reports on a World Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration in Manchester, England.
Professor Jungou Liu of Beijing told those gathered: “We set out to check the status of the 50,000 rivers the maps showed us in our country. We found that 28,000 of them were missing altogether.” Some had silted up, some had dried out completely – all squeezed off the planet by rising population, rising water demand, urban development and climate change.
The audience, even those accustomed to hearing consistently grim environmental news, was “gobsmacked,” he reports. Liu also spoke about the rapid increase of restoration projects across China, but, “like everywhere else in the world, land degradation is spreading a lot faster.”
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