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.
But but… “China bad” remember?
I know is not all good, but still seem better than US in so many ways.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of “bad” to go around. It’s not the human rights violations Olympics.
Dunno, kinda feels like it.
Angry upvote.
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…
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.
I really don’t think China is committing a genocide on the Uyghurs, the story just doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
Yeah I asked Winnie, he said it’s fake news and docked me -300 social credit for asking, case closed
Thanks for your contribution, the world 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/
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
So right off the bat, the executive summary goes
So this “terrorism” did actually happen, I’m not sure why it’s in quotes, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2014_Ürümqi_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.