Question

2 measures to stop increase in the area of wasteland

Answer 1

Reduce the use of harmful products to the environment.

Reduce the amount of plastic you use.

Wash clothes in cold water whenever possible. As much as 85 percent of the energy used to machine-wash clothes goes to heating the water.

A temporary or permanent decline in the productive capacity of the land. This can be seen through a loss of biomass, a loss of actual productivity or in potential productivity, or a loss or change invegetative cover and soil nutrients.

Action in the land's capacity to provide resources for human livelihoods. This can be measured from a base line of past land use.

Loss of biodiversity: A loss of range of species or ecosystem complexity as a decline in the environmental quality.

Shifting ecological risk: increased vulnerability of the environment or people to destruction or crisis. This is measured through a base line in the form of pre-existing risk of crisis or destruction.