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”Historic Dust Storm Sweeps Across Arizona, Turns Day into Night,” July 6, 2011, Reuters.

381 unusually large number of them in recent years

”7 Hab.o.o.bs Have Hit Arizona Since July,” KVOA, September 28, 2011, /news/7-hab.o.o.bs-have-hit-arizona-since-july/.

382 describing what is in store for many regions of desertifying drylands

Joe Romm, ”Desertification: The Next Dust Bowl,” Nature, October 2011.

383 ”China, western Mongolia, and central Asia; the other in central Africa”

Lester Brown, ”The Great Food Crisis of 2011,” Foreign Policy, January 10, 2011.

384 have increased tenfold during the last fifty years

Gaia Vince, ”Dust Storms on the Rise Globally,” New Scientist, August 2004.

385 ”activity and 40 percent of the continent's population”

”Desertification Affects 70 Percent of Economic Activity in Africa,” Pana Press, October 24, 2011.

386 United States' Midwest just prior to the Dust Bowl

Rattan Lal, interview with author, July 2, 2009; Rattan Lal, ”Global Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect,” Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 22, no. 2 (2003): 15184.

387 the number of livestock exploded

Brown, Plan B 4.0.

388 Muslims moving from the north into non-Muslim areas

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