I am always happy to hear about reforestation, but has somebody understood out of which source the numbers from china are coming? I mean they are sometimes quite the enthusiasts talking about their successes
Source for your claim that they sometimes lie about their accomplishments?
It’s not like forest cover is hard to verify by satellite imagery. Lying about reforestation and deforestation is hard.
you managed to fit so much seething and coping into a single comment
sources that contradicts this is buried in the convo
https://lemmy.ml/comment/5738838once you learn to read, you’ll see that the sources provided are contradicting the claim in the parent comment which is
The satellite imagery shows a net loss compared to CCP figures which show a net gain. China lies more easily than it tells the truth.
No sources given for the data used in the infographic. How surprising /s
reading comprehension problems?
Sure but what’s the forest growth per capita?
How is that relevant? Serious question, I don’t see a link between forests and per capita that actually matters. If we were talking about economic comparisons, sure. If anything, adjusting it as “per sq mile of forestable land” would make more sense.
It’s relevant because, as demonstrated multiple times in this thread, when the topic of pollution and emissions from China comes up everyone rushes to defend them with “but muh per capita”. As if the environment cares.
So you said something irrelevant as a jumping off point for an axe you wanted to grind? Good job
Alexa, what is rhetoric?
Link your Twitter. I bet you have a statue pfp
Iceland and Uruguay got those numbers tho.
This article is nearly two years old. Also, I implicitly distrust any source which depicts Taiwan as part of the PRC.
Imagine being so brainwashed by propaganda that you distrust your own government position 🤡
I’m not sure why you would assume I’m American. I mean, you happen to be right in this case, but I’m still not sure why you’d assume that.
Anyhow, there’s an irony in your assertion that disagreeing with the position of one’s government is “brainwashed.”
I’m not sure why you would assume I’m American. I mean, you happen to be right in this case, but I’m still not sure why you’d assume that.
Americans are very ease to distinguish based both on their political stances (which tend to be rather unique) and how they express them (which IS unique).
Y’all are like those pickup trucks with LED lights. Once you realize they exist, you can’t miss them.
Anti-China/pro-Taiwan sentiment isn’t exactly unique to the US. I think you’re alluding to an incendiary tone with respect to how you say Americans express their views, but that doesn’t seem to quite fit so I’m a little lost there.
I mean, clearly people can tell that you’re American, so maybe it’s time for some introspection?
Daily reminder:
The Taiwan Province is an inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China:
And this is recognized by the United Nations ever since 1971 after UNGAR 2758.
Source, page 546: https://web.archive.org/web/20230503050030/https://legal.un.org/unjuridicalyearbook/pdfs/english/volumes/2010.pdf
Video of the votes happening: https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=sfOIEjuXFyU
but at what cost? 😭
Yay China. Say… isn’t this the same country that turns out 68% of the world’s air pollution?
What have they done about that?
Yes. And the same country that produces all the shit we order from them. So is it their pollution or ours?
Yes. It is.
It is… What?
Regardless who or why is to blame - the damage belongs to all of us.
That’s true, but pointing fingers saying China has to change when changing nothing ourselves, is pure propaganda.
When did I say that?
In terms of particulates? China’s really cleaned that up in recent years.
But, well, China doesn’t have massive piles of natural gas it can burn instead of coal. Coal is notoriously dirty.
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Also the country that dominates green energy manufacturing… Which is what everyone else is using to reduce their emissions.
They’ve done a lot about that, like becoming the global leader in pretty much every renewable sector as well as nuclear. Also, worth mentioning that smooth brained liberals have all their stuff produced in China. It’s absolute idiocy to bleat about pollution without considering where consumption is happening. Per capita energy usage in China is far lower than in the west.
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The demand comes from people consuming the goods. I’m sorry you lack intellectual capacity to wrap your head around this concept.
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That’s a nice straw man there buddy. I never said anything of the sort. It’s the capitalist system in the west that’s responsible for creating western lifestyle and the consumption that goes along with it. Nowhere did I say that I expected this system to work either. Keep trying there.
I would be hesitant in claiming this as a win. I know that Japan has one of the highest number of trees per capita in the g7 but that was a hold over from post WW2. Where they planted a shit ton of a singular tree type. The monoculture wrecks havoc in their ecosystem. All this to say it’s good that they are planting trees I’m just hoping they are doing it planning it out carefully.