Yermo is a term that has different uses, as indicated by the Royal Spanish Academy, this is a word that comes from the Latin eremus, however, its roots come from the Greek and it can be used as both a noun or an adjective.
Yermo can be used to indicate that some surface that does not have life, it can be a land which does not have vegetation or animals or, failing that, human beings that live there. Also, it is possible to use this adjective figuratively or to speak of the impoverishment of a region.
This term is a bit contradictory, since while many people suffer from the lack of soil fertility because they cannot grow their food or even enjoy the presence of plants, there are others who are urgently looking for a way to convert a fertile land in the wilderness, to be able to decorate it with stones, grass and artificial elements.
It is almost impossible to believe that people in very poor countries, where they die of thirst or those who fall ill from water pollution, live on the same planet as those who consider themselves surrounded by too much nature, indulge in the irresponsibility of eliminating vegetation and later be replaced by artificial elements. It should be noted that in order to make a barren land, it is necessary to apply herbicides and other products to the soil, as well as gravel and stones.
Although the formal definition of the term wilderness refers to a land in which there is no flora or fauna and that cannot be cultivated, it is not strange to find this term with a less strict connotation, that is, to speak of not very fertile soils. There are areas where the drought is very intense and the rain occurs only a few days a year to green the land and then it goes away, it is possible to say that this terrain is barren.
