The Maowusu Desert was created in the last century due to desertification, mostly began to erode in large amount from 1950s-1980s due to heavy industrialization, so if anything this is like a green reconquest, now birds and other seasonal animals are coming back.
Black book of communism, but they include every grain of sand.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
And they planted shitty non-native trees that current generations of the conservation corps are removing because tamarisk trees are actually awful! The more you know.
(I'm not saying planting trees is bad, it's good for sure, but it's important to plant the right trees for the environment.)
༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ DESERTIFICATION CONTROL EFFORTS TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ
smh imagine if the us army was doing infrastructure projects and planting trees instead of killing brown kids
It is truly amazing what they were able to achieve in such a short amount of time.
This is a good documentary on how they were able to do it.Great idea too, wiping out deserts will help stop the spread of desertification from climate change. I remember reading about how China has some of the most desertifiiable land out there and making new forests at strategic locations will help tons.
Yep, we might quibble with the Three Gorges Dam, but it'll keep their key agricultural lands stable up to the 2080s even in the worst case climate change scenario.
i remember seeing articles of using drones to seed deforested areas
They've exported their techniques to a lot of African nations , and I believe "The Great Green Wall" project has come out of that exchange.
The Great Green Wall project is as far as I know not going that well sadly.
Theres been some valid criticism and mixed results but it's only 15 percent complete, clearly it will take more effort, but no reason to fall into despair already:
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/08/01/the-great-green-wall-of-africa-is-this-the-next-wonder-of-the-world
It’s simple: We eradicate all of the desert except for a tiny bit where the only sand worm remaining who is also our God Emperor lives.
It’s clearly the only logical solution to the desertification problem while also being the optimal system of government.
It’s a win/win
Man if they're gonna criticize the PRC, at least be valid. Who am I kidding they're libs.
This was created as a parody, but who can tell these days :)
Oh, I didn't realize that the desert was new--that changes everything about my attitude towards this. I'm glad they're successfully restoring the habitat there!
Desert got probably put into a reeducation camp. Did you people see the train full of Desert?? They are enslaving Desert, China bad!
Unthinkable to think they ruined a perfectly good desert. I would’ve put a little pool in it and started a successful private beach resort.
