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The Nile Delta’s Disappearing Farmland

During the time of the pharaohs, the fertile soils along the Nile River likely supported a civilization of roughly 3 million people. Now there are 30 times that number of people living in Egypt, with 95 percent of them clustered in towns and cities in the Nile’s floodplain. Much of the growth has come in recent decades, with the Egyptian population soaring from 45 million in the 1980s to more than 100 million now.

Just 4 percent of Egypt’s land is suitable for agriculture, and that number is shrinking quickly due to a wave of urban and suburban development accompanying the population growth. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that this is a crisis,” said Nasem Badreldin, a digital agronomist at the University of Manitoba. “Satellite data shows us that Egypt is losing about 2 percent of its arable land per decade due to urbanization, and the process is accelerating. If this continues, Egypt will face serious food security problems.”

The pair of Landsat images below shows how much farmland has been lost to development around the city of Alexandria between the 1980s and 2021. Cultivated areas appear green; towns and cities are gray. According to one analysis of Landsat observations, the amount of land near Alexandria devoted to agriculture dropped by 11 percent between 1987 and 2019, while urban areas increased by 11 percent. The images above show urbanization eating into farmland around the cities of Tanta and El Mahalla El Kubra and between the Rosetta and Damietta branches of the Nile.

Source: The Nile Delta’s Disappearing Farmland

Machado de Assis

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” Depois…depois querida, queimaremos o mundo, porque só é verdadeiramente senhor do mundo quem está acima das suas glórias fofas e das suas ambições estéreis “.

Machado de Assis. Várias Histórias ( VIDA & OBRA). Série Bom Livro. Editora Ática. São Paulo. 1997

Marii Freire Pereira

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Santarém, pa 14 de dezembro de 2021

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Try Try Again

You Lil Dickens

I detest the fact that try the harder I try, the worse it gets

Nothing changes, not really

People come, then people go away

This is how my world works anyway

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These people that feign sincerity

Only feed the deep mistrust I have within me

Life is like a chessboard, formations galore

People using me, flattening me to the floor

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They wonder why I don’t want to try

Why I fear to make my move

Who do YOU think YOU are?

Judge, Jury, Executioner?

***

What do I want? What do I need?

Someone who is an umbrella in a rainstorm

A shoulder to cry on

One that could bring peace and calm

By merely holding you, welcomed sedation

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Learning to let go and finally realize:

Vulnerability is strength, my friends

So —Try Try Again!

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Day 22/67, Five Month GED, Repeated Ops, and Repeated Steps

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     Transportation is the repeating of foot steps, and the knowledge of location, while tools like exponents, multiplication, and division, are repeated operations on the same numbers.  These repeated operations are what every democracy movement must teach:

Day 22/67,  Week 6 of 18 weeks

Grammar: Essay writing 3/4: on paper

(Please finish your outline for your 500 word essay, and add your thesis sentence…)

Easiest: Power of a power practice using the Power Rule
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(Day 21Day 23)

 

Action Prompts:

1.) Consider sharing some ideas you may have on how our society can solve homelessness and child abuse, starting right now,

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those sources and your thoughts.

Thoughtful Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?

Support our key #PublicDomainInfrastructure…

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