The Green Wall of China

THE PROBLEM:

• Desert storms from Central Asia are causing global destruction
• Every spring, dust from China's northern deserts is carried eastward by the wind and blasted in Bejing 
• This causes houses, cars and people to by coated in a layer of a choking blanket of particles
• City hospitals become packed with patients suffering from respiratory ailments
• The Gobi desert is rapidly growing and the dunes are now within 150 miles of Bejing 

HOW THE PROBLEM HAPPENS:

• Desertification from overgrazing, deforestation and drought, which all create a layer of mobile topsoil 

THE PLAN:

• The plan is the Green Great Wall - 2,800 mile network of forest belts designed to stop the sands
• Trees should serve as a windbreak and prohibit the desert from advancing
• Chinese officials predicted that within a decade the effort will 'terminate expansion of new desertification caused by human factors'
• Also claim that by 2050, much of the…