Did you even read the article? Chinese researchers found that reforesting areas like grasslands into forest (as an example), redistributed water from the water cycle.
Nowhere in the article doesn’t it say “China bad”. The researchers said they should take into account how water availability could change when planning future deforestation efforts.
Not everything is political…you’re the one making it political.
Scientists from Tianjin University, China Agricultural University in Beijing, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands found that between 2001 and 2020, increased vegetation reduced water resources in both the eastern monsoon region and the northwestern arid region.
The whole intro to the article even puts China in a favorable light. Why are you so ready to go to the mat for China without even trying to read what they’re saying?
Byproduct of the US educational system. They can’t handle reading much more than a sentence before immediately posting their opinion about what they think the article is about.
Also, this article verifies what seems like it should have been a predictable cause/effect problem. Plenty of places have deforested their land and suffered mudslides, desertification, erosion. The US destroyed its prairies and got a dust bowl. The failure to predict that foresting grasslands and other areas not previously forest would result in ecological disruptions seems shortsighted. But, live and learn, do better next time.
You’re describing the US to a tee. China is a unlike what you think. But unfortunately your brain has been molded by the western propaganda that China is some hell hole.
Come and see for yourself. Maybe, just maybe you’ll get an incling of how delusional you are.
Fascism is more complicated than that, and while China is nationalistic it’s not running on the kind of ultranationalism that, say, Nazi Germany had. Modern China doesn’t meet any credible definition of fascism.
Um… hell no? There’s no way more than 3-4/14 are true unless you’re working with some kind of alternate universe China. Nothing about China is traditionalist, anti-modernist or anti-intellectualist, for one; they’re probably the most technocratic nation on Earth.
Fascism - 1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Which part doesn’t apply to china’s current government?
You obviously don’t know anything about about forestry so why say anything at all? Tree planting doesn’t magically create ecosystems.
Mass tree planting creates homogeneous forests that have no undergrowth or biodiversity. They don’t retain water and are usually the forests that burn up during fire season. China created a bunch of tree farms not forests lol.
Unlike gigiachad America, which cuts down all its trees to build data centers.
Ugh seriously stop trying to paint China’s achievements as disasters because every where else is succumbing to fascism.
It’s not about attacking China. It’s a lesson that large scale terraforming needs to be done thoughtfully and may have unintended consequences.
Or simply that humans can keep learning about ways our activities effect the environment
Did you even read the article? Chinese researchers found that reforesting areas like grasslands into forest (as an example), redistributed water from the water cycle.
Nowhere in the article doesn’t it say “China bad”. The researchers said they should take into account how water availability could change when planning future deforestation efforts.
Not everything is political…you’re the one making it political.
Right, the Americans…
The whole intro to the article even puts China in a favorable light. Why are you so ready to go to the mat for China without even trying to read what they’re saying?
They clearly only read the headline
Byproduct of the US educational system. They can’t handle reading much more than a sentence before immediately posting their opinion about what they think the article is about.
Also, this article verifies what seems like it should have been a predictable cause/effect problem. Plenty of places have deforested their land and suffered mudslides, desertification, erosion. The US destroyed its prairies and got a dust bowl. The failure to predict that foresting grasslands and other areas not previously forest would result in ecological disruptions seems shortsighted. But, live and learn, do better next time.
And also has no water
Arizona town facing severe water restrictions as supply could run out by summer
There are all too many cities in the world that are poorly located or have outgrown their resources. This article was not about that
However I do remember seeing that discussion a few days ago. Perhaps you want to search for that and add your comments there
Whataboutism activated!
Uhm China is very fascist.
What does that have to do with trees? Or research about trees?
Can we just… try to use words correctly?
What do you mean?
You’re describing the US to a tee. China is a unlike what you think. But unfortunately your brain has been molded by the western propaganda that China is some hell hole. Come and see for yourself. Maybe, just maybe you’ll get an incling of how delusional you are.
If china isn’t fascist then America definitely ISN’T fascist
It’s either both or neither
You can’t have your cake and eat it too, you know?
so which one of those points are you disputing
Fascism is more complicated than that, and while China is nationalistic it’s not running on the kind of ultranationalism that, say, Nazi Germany had. Modern China doesn’t meet any credible definition of fascism.
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I don’t understand why you’d post that link. Almost all of those 14 points are true for China.
Um… hell no? There’s no way more than 3-4/14 are true unless you’re working with some kind of alternate universe China. Nothing about China is traditionalist, anti-modernist or anti-intellectualist, for one; they’re probably the most technocratic nation on Earth.
Lmao. If you only read what they want you to read, sure.
Which part doesn’t apply to china’s current government?
That’s kind of American, TBH.
Two things can be true at once. This isn’t a zero sum game.
I would not characterize Xi Jinping as a dictator. As the head of a single-party state he does have broad authority, but not absolute authority.
E.g., for GP:
Have they already forgotten Jinping’s purges ?
Do they believe China is communist?
Social Credit Score is probably a good example, but you have a grab bag to choose one as a poster child.
Þere is no political opposition party.
c.f. Taiwan and þe entire S China Sea region.
Uyghurs.
Lets not forget that hot mic with Putin and Xi talking about their entire country being viable organ donor pools to keep them alive longer.
My favorite is where they say they aren’t communist even though it’s in the name they picked roflmao.
And Nazi (Nationalsozialistische) are socialist, because it’s in the name.
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The US plants around 1.3 billion a year, so…
With research, so they know what they’re doing?
Yes. Many colleges have forestry departments. I live down the road from a research forest.
Your ignorance is astounding.
You obviously don’t know anything about about forestry so why say anything at all? Tree planting doesn’t magically create ecosystems.
Mass tree planting creates homogeneous forests that have no undergrowth or biodiversity. They don’t retain water and are usually the forests that burn up during fire season. China created a bunch of tree farms not forests lol.