241
China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink (www.livescience.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/world@lemmy.world
49 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/58909207

Mass tree planting in China is turning one of the world's largest and driest deserts into a carbon sink, meaning it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, new research reveals.

"We found, for the first time, that human-led intervention can effectively enhance carbon sequestration in even the most extreme arid landscapes, demonstrating the potential to transform a desert into a carbon sink and halt desertification," study co-author Yuk Yung, a professor of planetary science at Caltech and a senior research scientist in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Live Science in an email.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[+] -14 points 9 months ago (11 children)

But but... "China bad" remember?

I know is not all good, but still seem better than US in so many ways.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    I'm sure if we try hard, like really really hard, we could also find something nice in the USA. China plants trees and ushers green energy, USA... well... I'm sure there is something. Moon program for example...

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    The USA was one of the first countries to ever do a green belt, China isn’t necessarily copying the USA but they are definitely building off the body of work that occurred before.

    China is also committing a genocide on the Uyghurs.

    USA is starting its own ethnic cleansing.

    Everyone sucks.

    So just celebrate the little good we do have.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
    •
  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I really don't think China is committing a genocide on the Uyghurs, the story just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for your contribution, the world largely disagrees but neat!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago*

    Thanks for your contribution, the world West largely disagrees but neat!

    FTFY

    This is from 2019, but is one of the few articles I found actually listing countries, instead of just saying "51 UN member states" with no further detail. Do take a look at the respective lists. No conclusions are drawn, but it's interesting nonetheless: https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/which-countries-are-for-or-against-chinas-xinjiang-policies/

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Here's the Amnesty International report if you want to give it a bit more scrutiny. I think it's China's attempts to discredit it that don't hold up to scrutiny:

    www.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Amnesty-International_China-Report_FINAL.pdf

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Here's another thing I noticed. A little farther down, it mentions they interviewed "dozens" of people, and that this represents a significant portion of all available testimonial evidence. Of course they attribute this to the Chinese government trying to keep information from getting out.

    Here's the thing: there's absolutely no way they could be that successful in keeping this hidden. Just look at Gaza. It's tiny, literally walled in, and israel all the best tech for oppression and surveillance (it's like their whole thing) plus the infinite money glitch via the USA. And still, we have countless videos of the horrors perpetrated against Palestinians. Xinjiang is HUGE, and there are something like 10 million Uyghurs. Stuff would absolutely get out.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago

    So right off the bat, the executive summary goes

    Since 2017, under the guise of a campaign against “terrorism”,

    So this "terrorism" did actually happen, I'm not sure why it's in quotes, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2014_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_attack

    Note the reference at the top to another incident only one month earlier. Unfortunately there were several more.

    This tone certainly suggests a foregone conclusion, but anyway. It goes on to describe various abuses, do they amount to genocide? They sure wouldn't if israel was the perpetrator, but I guess when it's China we can throw around the G word no problem. Perhaps I can give it more scrutiny later, gotta work now.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent