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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-its-changed-the-entire-countrys-water-distribution
casskaydee [she/her] - 1w

But at what cost?

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MeowZedong @lemmygrad.ml - 1w

All of their freedom. They are an explicitly authoritarian country run by what they refer to as a "dictatorship of the treeletariat" wherein the trees own the means to production (water) and solely decide how it is distributed. No more tanks, just trees.

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MrSulu @lemmy.ml - 1w

Certainly helpful to the wider planet too. The West spent decades resisting its own needed climate actions, including re-greening, simply because China was producing so much CO2. I think this is the first time I've heard of China's long term regreening activities. We also need to start now wherever we are on the planet.

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DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them] - 1w

Cope: “Since China’s doing nothing, we’ll do nothing!”

Cope soon: “What are you getting on my case for? China will clean up after us! Let me consume without thinking in peace!”

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