Savory's Desertification Video Analysis

It’s quite obvious that we’re going to need to bring back extinct animals. This can be

One threat to the Mojave Desert today is off-road vehicles. These vehicles end up causing damage to wildlife and cultural resources. Unfortunately when these vehicles are driven throughout areas such as Johnson Valley, they cause damage the wildlife on the protected land. These off-road vehicles are driven recklessly and for the most part the driver will not stop. Consequently, the plant or animal that was in the way of the drivers course is crushed and dies. When this happens in areas like this, the while entire environment can be affected. One single plant or animal killed by an off-road vehicle starts begins a chain reaction of resource loss. These off-road vehicles are actually churning up the soil and this causes damage to the plant roots

This causes the desertification and it also slows down progress for finding areas that can be medicine for certain diseases. Grasslands act as a big sponge, as they are able to absorb the rain that falls throughout the grassland. Because of this, there's fertile land, and abundance of nutrients for migrating wildlife. In south Africa, companies have put non-native trees in the grassland which is taking away nutrients from the area. In the Florida Everglades, they're only about 80 Florida Panthers left. The big problem that I notice is that we are able to make plenty of land for agriculture but not for people. In only three years, farmers in Zambia have created food security for 16,000 farmers. Glaciers are melting all run the world, however the speed of this has went up three times as much in the last 50

The concept of a Food Desert is not new, “British politicians introduced the idea of food deserts in the mid-1990s… suggested a link might exist between distance to a grocery store and the diets of poor people” (Gilligan, 2014). It took many years before the idea of a Food Desert was recognized in the United States of America but it is now estimated that, “About 23.5 million people live in food deserts” ("11 Facts About Food Deserts | DoSomething.org | Volunteer for Social Change," n.d.). The inability to obtain healthy food choices leads to, “people in low-income communities [suffering] more from diet-related diseases like obesity and diabetes” (Truehaft & Karpyn, 5, n.d.). The existence of these Food Deserts is a factor that works to keep those in poverty down and makes progress even harder for them to

Many people that lives in food deserts has tremendous possibility of being obese because the community in whole eats a lot of processed food, but some can become obese due to how they eat and burn those calories. Another health problem that people in a food desert can face is diabetes because majority of the food they eat has a lot of sugar in the food they eat. Even though, there are a lot of other health problems too, but one of the most major one is the following: cardio respiratory because the fellow person could die, but it also increases the rate of death in the US. Due to the problems of why we can’t get healthy food, our country’s obesity and death rate has gone up.

The observation took place on Wednesday, February 22, 2017. I conducted my observation at Little School of the Desert, located in Twentynine Palms, CA. At this location I observed a 4 yr. old boy named Nicholas. Nicholas is 4 yrs. old.

An ecosystem is “A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.” As stated by Oxford Dictionary, 2017. An ecosystem can range in size from a tiny pond to, the entire world, by its definition. Ecosystems contain all of the complex relationships that occur between living things and their surroundings, including other living things (biotic factors) and non-living external factors (abiotic factors). The aim of this report is to investigate the effects of human activity on an ecosystem, I have chosen to base this report on the ecosystems that are generally seen in a desert biome. [98 words]

Landscape is a beautiful piece of land, an approved appearance, similar to the way our society use to be. When Jameson says “the degraded landscape”, he is referring to our society changing, and not for the better, going downhill and not up like we should be. The movies we watch allow many more things to be said, shown, and discussed. In 1939, “Gone with the Wind” was the first movie that had one of the actors to say a curse word “damn”. The world was shocked at first, and after a while it just became the norm. If you look at the way we advertise clothing, especially revealing clothing, women proudly stand in front of the camera advertising a little more than the clothes they are wearing. The music we listen to and the language that is used

Environmentalist view animal agriculture as a major threat to the Earth and the population that fills it. Animal agriculture has caused mass extinction of species, the melting of Arctic sea, and the collapse of the world fisheries. According to many environmentalist, the earth is currently facing the greatest mass extinction of all in history roughly a thousand times greater than ever before. For example, the Earth has lost more plant and animal species in today's time compared to the period of the dinosaur extinction. Due to the constant increase of animal agriculture causing desertification and deforestation is leading to the increase of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere and predominantly the unnatural change in the climate. In the

The conversion of grassland to agriculture in the United States has led to the loss of much of the ecosystem services they provide. Some of these services include cycling and moving nutrients, protection and formation of soil, carbon sequestration, protection of surface waters, and habitat for wildlife. One of the major consequences we face from converting grassland for agricultural use is soil erosion. When soil is swept away faster than it can be replenished, the land will eventually become a useless desert. The grassland will not be able to be used for agriculture and it will also not be able to provide any other benefits. Furthermore, the damage could take decades to reverse.

Okay, Basic Summary: Cora wakes up in a strange land with an impossible layout. Deserts lay next to Arctic Mountains and you always return to where you started your journey. She soon discovers four other teens each with a hidden past. When a majestic young guard named Casian enters they realize that they have been abducted by an alien race who claims that they want to preserve humanity. Can Cara escape this foreign prison before she and her new found friends lose their tenuous grasp on reality?

The Wasteland project had a big impact on the people who were a part of it. It used the materials that were around the wasteland and used the people who were and are living there. Instead of using fancy or nice materials, and professional models. In the video, they said that all the money went to the people who lived in the landfill. I have a hard time believing that and there are a few issues that I have with this project. First money is not everything, what was the motive, and what happened after.

Because the Temperate Grassland ‘‘are flat, treeless, covered with grass, and have rich soil’’, it is often the victim of overgrazing or being used for farming purposes (“The Grassland Biome,” 2004). The Temperate Grassland is the ideal place for growing crops ,but as it is turned into arable land, the grasses are eradicated and ‘‘fallow plowed lands lose topsoil to dust and erosion’’ (Environmental Damage in the Temperate Grasslands, 2016). According to article ‘Temperate Grassland, “About 47 percent of temperate grasslands have been converted to agriculture or urban development.” (Temperate Grassland, 1). When grasslands are plowed for agriculture, the biodiversity of the flora get decreased and replaced by non-native plants. When replacing species, you are also decreasing the food source of other organisms, which disrupts the ecosystem’s food

This essay is going to be split into 4 different topics separating the information and allowing this to be more concise and correct, and overall answering the topic question. Now this question is going to be answered with another question, cool right? How does this affect us in the modern day? Our lands and biomes have been altered in the past, so how does this even affect us? It affects us because our land had been easily destroyed or “repurposed” for our needs but has been extremely difficult to be repaired. If we destroy a forest full or plants and animals to the very brim and replace it will flat tiled land filled with exclusively food, it will mess up the pre-existing ecosystem.

Although animals living in the desert have had to evolve in order to adapt to the desert conditions, those conditions are very fragile. The desert may be a hard place for non-natives to survive, but the desert’s ecosystem is very sensitive and not easy to regenerate. “Development, off-highway vehicle use, livestock overgrazing, construction of roads and utilities, military training exercises, air pollution and the spread of non-native plant species have seriously altered the desert ecosystem over the last century” (Barton, 1999). These are the hazards by humans that are directly affecting the ecosystem in the desert. According to Barton (1999) the off-highway vehicle use, construction, overgrazing, and military usage damages the desert’s