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supersnoop

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Smart Western journalists discovered that China's deforestation has utterly failed.

The millions of new trees are merely "green deserts", not forests.

The picture below clearly portrays this. Zhang obviously stands in a green desert, NOT a forest.


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I actually went to Google this article because I find the CS Monitor fairly balanced on average.

So the clickbait headline aside, it is actually a fair discussion of the challenges of reforestation. Because it was fairly unprecedented at the time it was conceived, scientists did not fully consider native plants and natural biodiversity, scientists in the article hope to get the government’s attention to improve this in the future.

It is a fair point to bring up as monocultural planting is more vulnerable to pests and diseases.
 

Minm

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I actually went to Google this article because I find the CS Monitor fairly balanced on average.

So the clickbait headline aside, it is actually a fair discussion of the challenges of reforestation. Because it was fairly unprecedented at the time it was conceived, scientists did not fully consider native plants and natural biodiversity, scientists in the article hope to get the government’s attention to improve this in the future.

It is a fair point to bring up as monocultural planting is more vulnerable to pests and diseases.
The challenges will be overcome eventually. But the opportunities are rarely discussed. Turning the desert into forest may change China's climate forever. Former deserts will become arable land eventually and the total carrying capacity of China will be much higher, supporting an even larger population. Forests should also make northern China much less dry
 
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