The Maowusu Desert was created in the last century due to desertification, mostly began to erode in large amount from 1950s-1980s due to heavy industrialization, so if anything this is like a green reconquest, now birds and other seasonal animals are coming back.
Black book of communism, but they include every grain of sand.
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
And they planted shitty non-native trees that current generations of the conservation corps are removing because tamarisk trees are actually awful! The more you know.
(I’m not saying planting trees is bad, it’s good for sure, but it’s important to plant the right trees for the environment.)
༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ DESERTIFICATION CONTROL EFFORTS TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ
smh imagine if the us army was doing infrastructure projects and planting trees instead of killing brown kids
It is truly amazing what they were able to achieve in such a short amount of time.
This is a good documentary on how they were able to do it.
Great idea too, wiping out deserts will help stop the spread of desertification from climate change. I remember reading about how China has some of the most desertifiiable land out there and making new forests at strategic locations will help tons.
