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人们忽视了一个与自己息息相关的节日。我曾翻阅过数十本的日历,希望在其标志的各种各样的节日中找到这样的一个:“6月17日:世界防治荒漠化和干旱日”,但是,从“春节”、“元宵节”等中国传统的节日,到“情人节”、“愚人节”、“圣诞节”等洋节,惟独没有它的影子。其实,生态学家早就告诫我们:21世纪对人类最大的威胁是环境问题,被喻为“地球的癌症”的荒漠化问题是人类面临的重大生态灾难。全球土地荒漠化的形势严峻到已经大大超出了一般人的想象,荒漠化面积已经达到3600万平方公里,占到了全球陆地面积的1/4。全世界受荒漠化影响的国家有1000个,约9亿人受到荒漠化的摧残、影响和威胁,每年全世界荒漠化带来的直接经济损失达到420亿美元以上。中国是世界上荒漠化土地面积
People ignore a festival that is closely related to oneself. I have read through dozens of calendars and I hope I could find such a festival in the various festivals marked by it: “June 17: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought,” but from “Spring Festival,” “Lantern Festival Festival ”and other traditional Chinese holidays, to“ Valentine’s Day ”,“ April Fool’s Day ”,“ Christmas ”and other foreign festivals, but its shadow alone. In fact, ecologists have long warned us that the greatest threat to mankind in the 21st century is environmental problems. The desertification problem that has been hailed as “cancer of the earth” is a major ecological disaster facing mankind. The severe situation of global land desertification has far exceeded the imagination of most people. The desertification area has reached 36 million square kilometers, accounting for one quarter of the global land area. About 1,000 people are affected by desertification in the world and about 900 million people are devastated, affected and threatened by desertification. Each year, the direct economic losses caused by desertification worldwide reach more than $ 42 billion. China is the desertified land area in the world