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China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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I've been binging a lot of videos on things like rewilding and other approaches that can be used to restore landscapes. The Chinese have successfully executed a number of large scale projects over the decades. They started this early. Where other countries talked about doing things, the Chinese went ahead and did those things. One of their projects is allowing them to undertake infrastructure projects in the desert.…

Any YouTube playlist that you can share?

Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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India too has been adding more green cover than ever. Higher CO2 in atmosphere leads to faster growth of forests. But more important factor is urbanization for India. As people move to cities the need to cut down trees goes down.

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So why are the forests growing faster

Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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I've been binging a lot of videos on things like rewilding and other approaches that can be used to restore landscapes. The Chinese have successfully executed a number of large scale projects over the decades. They started this early. Where other countries talked about doing things, the Chinese went ahead and did those things. One of their projects is allowing them to undertake infrastructure projects in the desert.…

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Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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I've been binging a lot of videos on things like rewilding and other approaches that can be used to restore landscapes. The Chinese have successfully executed a number of large scale projects over the decades. They started this early. Where other countries talked about doing things, the Chinese went ahead and did those things. One of their projects is allowing them to undertake infrastructure projects in the desert.…

Do you know why the mounds with half-moon shapes? Why is it more effective than simply digging a circular hole in the ground?

Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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India too has been adding more green cover than ever. Higher CO2 in atmosphere leads to faster growth of forests. But more important factor is urbanization for India. As people move to cities the need to cut down trees goes down.

Doesn't that put pressure on the cities itself especially the peripheral counties to pave way for housing and concrete roads?

Yes, and it's a good thing.

Either way, you need to fit the needs of the same number of people. If they're in a dense city near everything they need, they use less space.

Policies to limit urban sprawl just an expensive way to create more sprawl elsewhere - and roads to it.

Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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Much of Europe used to be forest. It just all got whacked in the few centuries prior to today. So you have Europeans making tiny recoveries to their rampant destruction of their environment celebrating that fact while preventing others from doing what they did. There is one path to this: first clear cut your forests so you can build your industry; then build your industry so you can be prosperous; then rebuild your f…

You are wrong. In Gaule, most of the country was farmland. Wood consumption was huge.

Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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I've been binging a lot of videos on things like rewilding and other approaches that can be used to restore landscapes. The Chinese have successfully executed a number of large scale projects over the decades. They started this early. Where other countries talked about doing things, the Chinese went ahead and did those things. One of their projects is allowing them to undertake infrastructure projects in the desert.…

Do you know why the mounds with half-moon shapes? Why is it more effective than simply digging a circular hole in the ground?

Same effect for half the work. Look up the videos on youtube, it's manual labor on very hard ground.

Re: China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

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This sounds big but its less than the bare minimum required. Their coal emissions are insane. In my opinion its all anyone should be talking about when it comes to climate change.

Aren’t they bringing on incredible amounts of solar we could only dream about?

Edit: for the downvoters

https://gemini.google.com/app/6da2be1502b764f1

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