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China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth(media.mas.to)

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HornyOnMain@hexbear.net
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ngl, vietnam is looking pretty impressive too

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mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Cuba is at 57.5%, also one of the highest in the world percentage-wise

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Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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but at what cost? 😭

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Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Xi is genociding the deserts.

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GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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I hear people say this is bad somehow because the reforestation will somehow make the environment sterile because ???

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GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Foresting natural deserts can cause environmental problems, but most of the land China is reforesting was desertified by industrialization.

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Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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exactly, but since theres pictures of it being a “desert”, they think that means its proof that the reforestation is doomed. Zero analysis, but liberals love a picture book.

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