Serious Earth is DEAD & MAN MUST DIE = Desertification not only Mongolia!

nkfnkfnkf · Jun 9, 2017

I read this forum about a thread of visiting Mongolia visa-free, and then went into Google Earth to check on the world's Most Beautiful Huge Grassland Country, to my fucking shock - it is NOW JUST A DESERT! Ugly!

It means no more capability to produce oxygen from grass chlorophyll, no more production for sheep cows horses goats donkeys etc, no meat, no food, no economy!

This is not just a Mongolian problem, it is in China, India Middle East, North Africa, Australia, USA, Mexico, South America aslo.

It is caused by man of modern civilization lifestyle and urban living. Man will in turn die for this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/daesung-lee_n_6648868.html

ARTS & CULTURE
02/10/2015 10:11 am ET | Updated Feb 10, 2015
Photos Of Mongolia's Desertification Reveal Shocking Effects Of Changing Climate
By Priscilla Frank

To this day, at least 25% of Mongolia's population lives a nomadic life, and in doing so, they remain fiercely dependent on open land for survival. However, due to the fluctuation in climate in recent years, changes to the landscape have rendered this lifestyle difficult, if not impossible, to maintain. Over the course of the past 30 years, approximately a quarter of the country has turned to desert, with around 850 lakes and 2,000 rivers having dried out. If this pattern persists, the Mongolian tradition that's existed for thousands of years will become extinct.

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Korean-born photographer Daesung Lee captures the impending desertification of Mongolia, and the threat such a transformation would present to its inhabitants, in a photography series titled "Futuristic Archaeology."

Lee was inspired to create the series after visiting a museum in Paris, he explained to The Huffington Post. He was struck by the paradox of the displayed collections chronicling cultures that have been destroyed, leaving a strange hybrid of preservation and destruction. "These collections had lost their function or meaning by losing the culture or society that they once belonged to," he explained. "I thought nomadic life in Mongolia also will have the same destiny in the future due to climate change caused by our hands."

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Lee's photographs transform the endangered landscape of Mongolia into a sort of limbo, somewhere between a current way of life and a carefully prepared exhibition peering back at an old tradition. Each image features a billboard with a printed image, stuck in the real Mongolian desert. The billboard operates like a museum display or a diorama -- think the Woolly Mammoth display in the Natural History Museum. By juxtaposing a natural photograph and what appears to be a museum display, Lee captures the precarious position of nomadic life in Mongolia, teetering on the verge of obsolescence.

"This nomadic lifestyle is better alive in an original society or culture than preserved as a fossil in a museum," Lee added. "This climate change impact, we all have a part of responsibility. We will pay for this in the future as long as we do not make efforts for changes." Lee's photos, flattened visions of past and future, combine scientific fact with a surrealist gleam, rendering a fantastical-looking vision that will very likely become a reality one day.

For another one of Lee's haunting meditations on climate change's global effects, check out "On The Shore of a Vanishing Island, Ghoramara," in which Ghoramara's remaining citizens pose alongside what's left of their island home.

nkfnkfnkf · Jun 9, 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/global-...olia-destroying-pastures-nomadic-herders-dzud

Climate change in Mongolia destroying pastures on which nomadic herders rely

Overgrazing and a cycle of summer drought and winter snow has degraded vital pastureland in Mongolia, killing livestock and jeopardising livelihoods
A goat lies dead on a hillside in the Ulziit district of Bayankhongor in Mongolia
A goat lies dead on a hillside in the Ulziit district of Bayankhongor in Mongolia. It is the victim of a dzud, a weather pattern that occurs when a dry summer is followed by a harsh winter. Photograph: Grace Brown/AP
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Daashka and his brother tear across the Mongolian steppe on a motorbike in a desperate search for somewhere to graze their herds. Pastureland is dwindling rapidly as the country is beset by a cycle of drought and harsh winter that is killing off livestock in droves.

“The summer ends early now and the fall is short and dry. Then there’s the long winter,” said Daashka, a 19-year-old herder who uses just one name and lives in the central Ulziit region.

The family’s herd, mostly sheep and goats, has shrunk from about 1,000 animals to 600, Daashka said, leaning against the motorbike on an exposed patch of dirt that, in other years, would have been covered by the roots of grass and other vegetation.
Last days: the Mongolian nomads whose way of life is lost to climate change – in pictures
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Mongolia is experiencing a natural disaster called a dzud. The phenomenon, unique to the country, usually occurs after a summer drought is followed by heavy winter snowfall that makes already scarce pastures inaccessible to livestock.

In the past, the country experienced widespread dzud about once in a decade, but they have recently been occurring every few years. Experts say the rising frequency is due to a combination of climate change and human activity, which has increased the size of herds to levels the grasslands cannot sustain.

With temperatures dipping below -40C (-40F) in the evenings and extreme cold expected until April, Daashka’s family saved enough money to buy feed, which they hope will keep their herd alive until the spring.

Other nomads have not been so fortunate.

Half a mile away, about 100 dead goats and sheep were piled up among the rocks. The family was elsewhere with what remained of their herd, leaving one goat clinging to life near the relative warmth of a yurt, the traditional tent dwelling with a coal-burning heater inside.

Mongolia’s foreign ministry last month asked for aid to help deal with the dzud. It estimated that about $4.4m (£3.09m) is required for emergency vehicles, warm clothes, medicine and food to assist herders, in addition to hay, animal feed and vaccinations to keep livestock alive.

But the government has stopped short of declaring a state of emergency, which is required before some international agencies can allocate funding for emergency relief.

Impassable roads covered with thick snow and ice are making it difficult for aid workers to reach herders. More than 400,000 people in the northern and western parts of the country are at risk, with millions of livestock facing starvation in the weeks and months ahead, the Red Cross said in an appeal for funds last week.

“Global warming is causing about 50% of the problems and local forces cause the other 50%,” said Purevjav Gomboluudev, head of climate research at Mongolia’s information and research institute of meteorology, hydrology and environment.

About half of Mongolia’s 3 million people rely on livestock production. But with oversupply, prices have plunged on animal products such as milk, wool, meat and camel hair.

Each sheep or goat – the most common livestock – is worth about $30. A cow is worth $250-500, depending on meat quality. A camel is worth about $500, and a horse $200-250, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

“Consequently, there is an incentive to increase animal numbers, leading to the colossal numbers we see today, at over 50 million head of livestock, which degrades the precious pasturelands,” said Robert Schoellhammer, country director for the ADB.

The trend has been devastating when combined with climate change.

The average temperature in Mongolia has increased by 2.1C since 1940, more than double the rise of average global temperatures, according to the UN Environment Programme. In its 2014 global climate risk index (pdf), the advocacy group German Watch ranked Mongolia the eighth most vulnerable country to direct economic losses from weather-related events.
Mongolian nomads are seen milking goats in the Gobi desert in September 2013

Mongolian nomads are seen milking goats in the Gobi desert in September 2013. Photograph: Nicolas Marino/Alamy

According to a government report, 70% of pastoral land has been degraded, with less variety of vegetation. The intensification of dry conditions has increased the frequency of forest fires, which cut total forest area by 0.46% annually.

As more pasture is absorbed into the vast Gobi desert, the ancient herding lifestyle is disappearing with it. Paradoxically, the more their way of life is put at risk, the more herders engage in practices that put it in danger.

“Most herder families want to increase their herd so they can increase their income,” said Uranchimeg, a herder in Bayankhongor province who attended university in Russia in the 1980s but chose the fresh air and open spaces of a nomad’s life over taking a job in a city.

“That is making things more challenging for everyone,” she said, looking out across the barren, snow-covered landscape.

nkfnkfnkf · Jun 9, 2017

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Voluntary environmental conservation efforts in Mongolia

Photo credit: The Korea Herald

Employees of Korean Air and Mongolian residents plant trees in the Baganuur Desert in Mongolia (Korean Air)
Korean Air employees help make Mongolia greener

By Park Han-na

Some 170 Korean Air employees flocked to a Mongolian desert to plant trees as part of voluntary environmental conservation efforts, the South Korean carrier said Thursday.

A total of 600 people, including Korean Air’s new employees, executives and Mongolian residents, participated in the activity in the Baganuur Desert from May 18-29.

Mongolia has suffered from the effects of climate change, with 76 percent of its land vulnerable to desertification, the damaging effects of which have spilled over to neighboring countries due to yellow sand blown by the wind.

Read the full article: The Korea Herald

Desertification by mining and agriculture

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Camels on the Mongolian steppe
The threat of desertification: The Mongolian Plateau dry out

by Panteres

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Dust storms are piling up, lakes are smaller: researchers warn against dehydration of the Mongolian plateau – the region is eight times the size of Germany. Cause were mining and agriculture.

A huge plateau in Central Asia threatens to dry up. The lakes of the Mongolian plateau that extends across Mongolia and Inner Mongolia belonging to China, according to a study disappearing at an accelerating pace. Blame are mainly mining and agriculture, remind Chinese researchers in the’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’. They warn of catastrophic consequences.

The researchers found that the reasons for the devastation – climate change is not among them. In the sparsely populated Mongolia, the number of lakes waned since the eighties by almost 18 percent, in Inner Mongolia, with about ten times higher population density, contrast, almost twice as much – 34 percent

Key factors are. irrigation for agriculture, which lowers the water table, and especially the mining industry. Under the region dormant mineral resources such as coal, oil, copper or gold. Due to the increasing demand for food and natural resources, the researchers expect a gain of the observed trends in the coming decades.

‘ More effective action is urgently needed to save these precious lakes’, they emphasize.’ Otherwise, the damage caused by the loss lakes for nature, the nomadic culture and civilization on the plateau catastrophic.’ Avoiding such devastating consequences is a major challenge for the wisdom of politicians include the Chi

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