diversity

The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world. Covering over 3.6 million square miles (9.3 million square kilometers), it is more or less equal to the entire United States. However, ten thousand years ago, before this immense track of land became the dry Sahara Desert, it was known as the wet Green Sahara, a lush paradise of human, animal, and plant life. With so much land, it’d be easy to believe that it was inhabited by just as many people as there are in the US, but it’s actually quite the opposite. The Sahara Desert of today is only inhabited by approximately 2.5 million people, just 0.7% of the US’s current population of 329.5 million inhabitants. To further