So not only will Afghanistan lose an ancient site, a key to unlocking its important history, but the country will lose the land and everything living on it.
The country's State Forestry Administration estimates that desertification affects 400 million Chinese, many of whom lose the ability to farm their land or graze their animals and join the ranks of the tens of millions of internal environmental refugees, who often migrate to the big cities in search of new homes and jobs.
There might be a couple more tough vintages defined by depressed prices to come, but in that time overleveraged growers will lose their land and the survivors will decide which tier of the market they want to serve.
With the loss of their land, the Penan fear they will lose their independence.
This has led to fears that individuals who own land may lose it to the government as it redistributes it to the landless and squatters.
When the vast ice sheets and glaciers melt, they lose their reflective power, and instead, oceans and land absorb the heat, causing the Arctic waters and the atmosphere to warm faster.
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If the farmers lose, other owners will be tempted to convert their land to avoid losing it.
"Not only would we lose up to half of our land, but spread radiation to the rest of the world, " he said.
In the main, it is green, lush and fertile and as the morning mist rises off the water it is hard not to lose yourself in this beautiful land.
"I will not lose my rights because those who do not follow the laws and freedoms of this land choose not to follow, " he said.
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But he does not appear to think, as many do, that this was because they thought Srebrenica could not be held and that it would be better to lose it in war than give it up at the peace table in exchange for land elsewhere.
Inexperienced as she is, and certain to lose, she proves at least that a woman can contest the top job in the land.
"He's portrayed settled land on the right and wilderness on the left and it's essentially his manifesto to preserve the wilderness, to not lose sight of the beauty and spiritual importance of the wilderness as we rush to settle the land, " said Kornhauser.
But in a land where religious and patriotic fervour abounds, Mr Saakashvili will not lose many votes by defying the outside world's cultural overlords.
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