Wow, read the staggering statistic from this article about the advance of the desert in NW China "...its precarious state threatens to accelerate the spread of barren wasteland to the heart of China.
The national 937 Project, set up to fight the encroaching desert, estimated in April that 1,500 square miles of land, roughly the size of Rhode Island, is buried each year. Nearly all of north central China, including Beijing, is at risk."
Could it be that the crucial commodity for China's future is not oil, but water?
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