Hi, Katie here! I know it's been a long time so today we will be going over the environment issues in Africa. Now I don't remember if we've talked about this yet, but if we did, let's just review it.
In Africa, there is a lot of environment issues, which causes more bad things to happen, such as diseases from poor water quality. The cause of poor water quality is that African countries increase water pollution from factories, which basically ruins the water and makes it impossible to use; and contamination from animals and human waste, along with chemicals and other kinds of waste leak into the water. Natural phenomena such as snails, worms, insect or larvae, and other parasites, are the main factors affecting Africa's poor water quality; these organisms can and will cause waterborne diseases which reduce life expectancy, lessen the quality of life, and slow down economic development.
Next is desertification, one of the worst of the issues, even though they are all really bad. Anyway, desertification is the process of desert expanding into areas that had been been farmland. More than one-third (1/3) of Africa is threatened by desertification. Desertification is often intensified by human mismanagement through overgrazing animals, over cultivation of crops, deforestation, and over irrigation; it worsened by drought too. The effect of desertification is that farming and livestock decrease and poor soil increases, this causes droughts and this left people to famine and death. During the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, large areas of Africa experienced drought. On the human side, this led to famine and death, on the environmental side, it resulted in accelerated desertification. The many people who live in these areas often face starvation and poverty. Some Africans work hard to replant trees, build windbreaks to keep out sand, and to push the desert back whenever they can, to help in any way they can.
The next one is deforestation. Deforestation is the process of forests being destroyed to make wa
y for human development, the main cause being commercial logging. As the number of trees shrink, so does the amount of oxygen produced. As Africa's population increases and nations try to develop economically, deforestation has become a growing concern. This causes an amount of harmful carbon dioxide in the air to increase; this also causes the destruction of the rain forest' natural resources.
