They need to plant a diversity of crops to actually restore the ecology. Wildlife tends not to survive monocultures. The belt is ironically a green desert in terms of nutrients. Its also important to make the project more resilient to fire and disease
This isn’t specifically a critique of China, this happens in the US all the time
china is genociding the desert and you’re celebrating??
If Communism is good for the Chinese why are they planting trees whose shade they will not get to rest under?
Remembering the insane vitriol directed at Corbyn when he proposed planting trees Remembering the insane(ly racist) claim that Israel “made the desert bloom”
God, it pisses me off from afar how much the UK with great happiness, enthusiastically threw away all its soft power like it was radioactive because “we wanna be JUST LIKE ‘MURICA!”
Yeah, there is a leftist case to be made for Brexit, but Britain pig-headedly voted for it because “funny internet pictures told me to!” and when that fucked up because of course it did, the UK happily votes to double down on more of the same each and every time and they blow a gasket when someone tells them to stop doing this.
I mean I do kind of agree, but the elephant in the room wrt Brexit is that the effects of immigration were very unevenly felt — with certain communities, particularly those with a lot of agricultural laborers, affected quite negatively — and the only response anyone on the mainstream left had when xenophobes took advantage of the resultant discontent was, “shut up, peasant, it’s good for the economy”
Tbqh though the main thing preventing anything good from happening in Britain is that they haven’t begun to get their heads around what the British Empire was. They have to construct these insane fantasies, because the alternative is realizing that they’ve literally never had a proper economy outside of wringing the colonies dry and then spending the years since then selling off the silverware
Brexit was also very much driven by London profiting massively from financial services, while the rest of the country rotted away. Rural vs Urban, English vs British all were components.
I remember the time ChapoTrapHouse was trying to gaslight its audience into thinking the Brits did Brexit as solidarity with Greek workers or because it was mistreated by the EU. Despite the UK being amongst the top pro-austerity countries alongside Denmark and the Netherlands.
But at what cost!?
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