China’s efforts to slow land degradation and climate change by planting trees and restoring grasslands have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
Collectively, China’s ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.
Wow
It is very interesting, but I wish the article was a bit longer and was more specific about the comparative impacts of the water distribution effects it referred to.
The article basically says “stuff changed, here are a couple of numbers”, but it didn’t elaborate on the actual changes and effects and how they compare to 20 or 50 years ago from either an ecological vantage point or human experience point of view.
Yeah. This is super interesting but this was always a concern I had of this project, which has the potential to be great but is also so large it almost borders on geoengineering. Changes in water distribution could be good but I’d say they’re a bit more likely to cause harm than help.
wow. this is a tough one to comment on as its not really a good/bad but more its complicated thing.
how is it not univocally a good thing?
Trees good, china bad.
The areas of China with higher percentages of population is overall getting less water than before as there is more evaporation and China will need to account for this in their water distribution plans.
Whenever we restore nature we lose some farmland, human occupation, etc. Doesn’t really mean there is a bad side.
just wait until someone starts selling fake water to those areas.
It comes from chy-nah?
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Skating dangerously close to the naturalistic fallacy with your stupid comment. Ecological changes from any source could be catastrophic for life on earth, people are not a necessary precondition.
Uh oh… SOMEONE is not gonna like this. For some reason.
I wonder how much of that percentage is influenced by those areas China was spray painting green to make it look like a forest
