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Frida Ghitis : We could lose 90 percent of the planet’s topsoil by 2050 .
She says the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization warns that the equivalent of one soccer pitch of earth erodes every five seconds .
Ghitis says losing soil also closes off one of the most promising solutions to the climate crisis.
The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century anywhere in the world.
Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to the West .
In the Great Depression , the Dust Bowl left five hundred thousand Americans homeless and 3 million more than 3 million left homeless.
The CCC built what became known as the Great Plains Shelterbelt : 200 million trees, planted from Canada to Texas , to act as both a windbreak and a measure to combat soil erosion by holding water in the soil.
Still, regular rainfall didn't return to the region until almost a decade later .
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