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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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Post by iagooar »

Freedom2 wrote: post #28
iagooar wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably, yes. This is possible in Sweden, if you go from South to North, you can travel for multiple days by car and if you avoid highways, you will not leave the forest at all.

The joke I'm making is that many Texans like to make that statement about Texas (with regards to size and driving) and claim it's unique to that state and to the US without realizing that it's common for many other parts in the world as well.

Fun fact is: I heard Texans saying it only a few weeks back. Now I get what you meant ;)

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

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Post by hammock »

AuthAuth wrote: post #46

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.

Not counting the gobi desert , China is only 5x the size of Texas so it’s nothing to sneeze at

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

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Post by thegreatpeter »

Waterluvian wrote: post #63
gnarlouse wrote: post #58

I'm starting to think that we're the baddies.

It’s becoming very hard to see China as the adversary and not the U.S. There isn’t even a pretend moral high ground anymore.

Texas has the most wind farms & largest solar arrays in all of the US

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

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Post by ben_w »

mtmickush wrote: post #106
throwawaymaths wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The earth doesn't give a shit about per capita, and us and eu are net reducing CO2 emissions since 2014 (even during trump I)

The earth isn't a person. I think it seems valid to consider the harm and or benefits being caused on a per person basis. Why should an individual in the US be allowed to release more CO2 emissions than an individual in China?

> Why should an individual in the US be allowed to release more CO2 emissions than an individual in China?

The lack of a single world government is why.

Agreements between nations are only enforced by honour, and while that's more than nothing, it's not great.

The practical outcome of this is that who is "allowed" to do anything is dynamic, and who may do something the most can be inverted extremely quickly.

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

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Post by softwaredoug »

lovegrenoble wrote: post #132

Canada has added 20 million acres, India 22 million acres, Russia 52 million acres - an area about the size of Kansas.

The US reforested significantly in the twentieth century as well, which helped keep some of the US cooler than it should have been relative to the climate change norm.

https://news.agu.org/press-release/a-century-of-reforestatio...

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

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Post by taeric »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #109
WorldPeas wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

assuming you're not joking, construction equipment is incredibly expensive for countries to whom profiting from importing it is not a "sure thing", doubly so if their roads are not developed. This is why a 2000s hummer in central America still costs as much as a nice modern car.

A basic trencher is little more than a push lawnmower frame with a chain saw attached. Not enormous industrial equipment, but still a large boost to productivity vs a shovel.

I think the basic trencher would almost certainly still count as manual labor? Nobody is expecting that they are out there digging with bare hands.

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

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Post by throwawaymaths »

malshe wrote: post #115
throwawaymaths wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The earth doesn't give a shit about per capita, and us and eu are net reducing CO2 emissions since 2014 (even during trump I)

I am with you on this one. I have seen people making similar arguments about plastic dumped in the oceans where at least until about a decade ago China was well ahead of every nation. The oceans don't care about the per capita plastic polluting them.

Yeah currently the biggest source of oceanic plastic is phillipines IIRC

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

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Post by teleforce »

lovegrenoble wrote: post #132

Canada has added 20 million acres, India 22 million acres, Russia 52 million acres - an area about the size of Kansas.

Thanks for the info.

Honest questions how much forest the US and UK added since they are probably the loudest in the issue of deforestration?

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