Collectively, China's ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.
Wow
It is very interesting, but I wish the article was a bit longer and was more specific about the comparative impacts of the water distribution effects it referred to.
The article basically says “stuff changed, here are a couple of numbers”, but it didn’t elaborate on the actual changes and effects and how they compare to 20 or 50 years ago from either an ecological vantage point or human experience point of view.
wow. this is a tough one to comment on as its not really a good/bad but more its complicated thing.
how is it not univocally a good thing?
The areas of China with higher percentages of population is overall getting less water than before as there is more evaporation and China will need to account for this in their water distribution plans.
Whenever we restore nature we lose some farmland, human occupation, etc. Doesn't really mean there is a bad side.
just wait until someone starts selling fake water to those areas.
Trees good, china bad.
Imagine if China will started paying Northern Africa to regreen in order to create air rivers that land in the north.
I wonder how much of that percentage is influenced by those areas China was spray painting green to make it look like a forest
Uh oh... SOMEONE is not gonna like this. For some reason.
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