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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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wow. this is a tough one to comment on as its not really a good/bad but more its complicated thing.
how is it not univocally a good thing?
The areas of China with higher percentages of population is overall getting less water than before as there is more evaporation and China will need to account for this in their water distribution plans.
just wait until someone starts selling fake water to those areas.
Whenever we restore nature we lose some farmland, human occupation, etc. Doesn't really mean there is a bad side.
Trees good, china bad.
It comes from chy-nah?
Skating dangerously close to the naturalistic fallacy with your stupid comment. Ecological changes from any source could be catastrophic for life on earth, people are not a necessary precondition.