>>2683003Here is an example of desertification in China.
This watershed has no absorption--nothing to push the water into the ground. The water flows from the mountain to the lake taking all the topsoil and soil nutrients with it. Worse, the lack of biomass also significantly reduces cloud nucleation (reducing rainfall).
This whole region would take decades to restore and this is what the entire north side of the Himalayas looks like.
This is almost entirely man made after thousands of years of forestry mismanagement.
This is comparable to the american south west but much much more further gone.
