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It's on the edges of the desert, to limit its ongoing expansion, which was directly due to human activity.
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
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#33I wonder how the albedo has changed, and evaporation of water there.
That was my thought too Is it possible the trees can change the climate in the region? Can trees dampen regional water flux, seed clouds down range?
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-pl... was posted in another comment. The tl;dr seems to be less rainfall in the eastern regions and more in Tibet.
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And desertification has destroyed many existing biomes. I think, in the grand scheme of things, more forest is better than more desert, so this is a net positive.
An insufficiently nuanced perspective. In the grand scheme of things, when you destroy a biome it's gone forever. Note that China has a recent history of blockheaded moves like this, eg. mobilizing the entire human population to kill all the birds simultaneously across the country during the cultural revolution. India's discussing re-routing the Ganges. Humans never learn.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's on the edges of the desert, to limit its ongoing expansion, which was directly due to human activity.
And may I ask where would you assume the highest diversity of life exists in a desert?
I would assume that the unchecked human-generated expansion of the desert reduces the diversity of what was previously not desert.
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#37Do initiatives like these hurt native desert species?
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#38Do initiatives like these hurt native desert species?
Yes. But nobody cares about a few unimportant bugs and mice.
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#39Planting more trees regardless of region rather than cutting them down has a profound effect on the air quality. Forests are an enormous help to carbon recycling.
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#40Do initiatives like these hurt native desert species?
I’ve never heard this mentioned but it seems like an environmentalist could support increasing total life on a piece of land vs preserving specific sparse species.
I’d rather see a region of land be a thriving rainforest with millions of species vs protecting some specific tree.