Turkish experts have warned that climate change-related drought will increase desertification, hence the need for big changes in habits on a global scale, from production to water use against the effects of global warming.
The experts who gave the warning during this year’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought highlighted increasing threats of climate change-related events to a sustainable environment.
The UN observance day which is observed on June 17 each year, focuses on changing public attitudes toward the leading driver of desertification and land degradation.
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Speaking during the event, the head of the Natural Disaster Management Application and Research Center at Trakya University in Türkiye’s northwestern Edirne province, Mehmet Ali Kaya said that the risk of desertification has recently become more visible.
“Climate change may cause huge movement of people like it was during the Migration Period. Human beings are polluting nature and the air, increasing carbon dioxide emissions in the air,” he was quoted as saying.
Kaya noted that the world is currently at a tipping point, adding that it does not seem possible for the world to find an immediate solution to prevent desertification.
“We have to use our water resources very carefully, this is the issue we need to focus on,” he said. “Drought is accompanied by desertification, among dozens of events that are triggered by global climate change”.
Story was adapted from AA.
