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.
They stick hay in the sand to create wind breaks that trap moisture and seeds to stop the expansion of the desert. Hundreds of acres with 1 meter grids of hay pressed into the dunes. Ive never seen anyone painting anything but i don’t doubt some anti- communist propagandist is saying they are
You can make fun of it, but when party officials come to see, you bet your ass there will be local politicians forcing people to do so. They did the same in Poland in those times.